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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19085)	1/2/2012 10:11:50 PM
From: TopCat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I suppose you couldn't be bothered to check the numbers after you cut and pasted that article.

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (19085)	1/3/2012 10:06:30 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Assumes that natural selection would work on non-living chemicals the way it does on living things. But living things are designed to reproduce. Natural selection (or unnatural selection) can work on living things with genetic codes designed to reproduce by preferentially choosing some to reproduce more. The article talks about the odds of a peptide forming by accident ... so what. A peptide is a short chain of amino acids, it's one of those building blocks people talk about ... there's no code there. Just waving the hand and saying 'natural selection' doesn't explain how a genetic coding language can form by accident.