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Scientists find "genetic material" in meteorite

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I think there will always be, and I could be wrong, this huge gap from non-living material to bios. The mechanism for this change, I would think, would be drastically different than the mechanism for evolution. We can't really have random mutation of matter in the biological sense to create life. That is, unless matter has some properties that are similar to living cells. Why would non-living matter have a property that made it form into what we would call "life". Maybe our definition of life is feebly inadequate.

Perhaps there is a property of matter that exudes some type of intent to create more complex configurations of itself. And to adapt, replicate, and fit in as best as possible. The question of life arising and HOW it occurred will still remain elusive. This press release reminds me of the Miller-Urey experiment where we find amino acids generated from "soup" charged with electricity. It still doesn't really get us closer to WHY or HOW life came from these molecules if they did indeed come from them. Interesting nonetheless.
 
I think there will always be, and I could be wrong, this huge gap from non-living material to bios. The mechanism for this change, I would think, would be drastically different than the mechanism for evolution. We can't really have random mutation of matter in the biological sense to create life. That is, unless matter has some properties that are similar to living cells. Why would non-living matter have a property that made it form into what we would call "life". Maybe our definition of life is feebly inadequate.

Perhaps there is a property of matter that exudes some type of intent to create more complex configurations of itself. And to adapt, replicate, and fit in as best as possible. The question of life arising and HOW it occurred will still remain elusive. This press release reminds me of the Miller-Urey experiment where we find amino acids generated from "soup" charged with electricity. It still doesn't really get us closer to WHY or HOW life came from these molecules if they did indeed come from them. Interesting nonetheless.
 
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