OOL X - The origin of the RNA world.
- From: "jake" <jakelove@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 17:55:09 -0400 (EDT)
Food for Thought:
In response to my post about "On the origins of cells: a
hypothesis..." by William Martin and Michael J. Russell, Robert Mass
wrote on April 9th: "Thanks for the reference although my access to the
net from home is text only so I can't read PDF files... I look forward
to more of your references..."
Robert, i'm happy to be of some service here but i trust that you
won't expect me to interpret the details of the papers i suggest as
worth reading. So i'm not relevant when you say, in regard to Martin
and Russell, "The earlier part seemed interesting, but this sounds
rather a dramatic supposition with no support." If you don't study the
paper and the references cited therein, you're going to miss a whole
body of theory which lies behind the work in question.
My aim is only to provide a small taste of the food for thought which
such papers offer, afterwhich you may seek further sustenance, or not.
For example, when you ask-- "Do I understand correctly: These
precipates were mostly wedged or attached to fixed objects, not moving
around in water currents..."-- don't ask me but ask yourself and, after
reading the paper and reflecting, you might suppose that the
precipitates were sheltered in tiny compartments which allowed some
in/out traffic through micro-pores.
Having said that, i'd like to thank you for this: "I suggest you go to
the old Google Groups..." As it turned out, i clicked into the
Google-groups menu and managed to track the relevant threads from the
February 26 post of PIP's "OOL I - Manifesto and metatheory" statement.
As i become familiar with your thoughts along numerous threads, as well
as those of PIP, Tom Hendricks, and Tim Tyler, it seems to me that all
of your positions are neither mutually exclusive nor, broadly speaking,
inconceiveable. Yet the domain of inquiry is so hypothetical and the
devil is so obviously in the details, the advocate should not be
conflated with the adamant. Lighten up, kids, and the matter at hand
may evolve.
Later, Jake
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