noguru,
Your opening salvo was "read this and comment" and "reach for the stars." As a "rule" people who post links without commenting on their link themselves usually turn out to be trolls (the behavior speaks for itself). When I responded with humor and others said what they said you reacted badly with your accusation about "hanging our hats on a God rack blah, blah, blah..." I read your article (you didn't know) spurring my little joke, which you didn't approve of. We love you anyway because God commands us to. We're also here to serve you as we would serve ourselves and, frankly, we're pretty hard on each other so I apologize in advance for being an ignorant snob. I still love you anyway. Forgive me for making up words, too.
Apparently you have decided we're NOT scientists (on a Christian website - imagine that) and we don't claim to be geniuses (after all Christianity is a crutch and reason enough for applicational ignorance) so why even post literature on chemistry? Are you spoiling for a reason to call us stoopid? I can take it but cannot answer for others.
And because I'm a pretty happy dumb-*** I'm STILL going to give you my opinion/comment on your article).
Life can not originate from lifeless chemical soup. It's "fun" to write smart-sounding grant applications and get lots of money for experiments and there is much to be learned from such but the bottom line is still that science will never prove how life began. Ever. Science doesn't prove anything.
Self-organization? Elements and compounds don't self-purposely organize themselves without input from outside the system (food, death, etc...from your article). A bigger illustration would be toys strewn about a child's room. They never put themselves away. The principle applies here.
Autocatalysis? The reaction products are reactants. Catalysts affect the rate of a reaction. Boiling water comes to mind, or freezing water, you choose. Interesting that things catabolyse themselves to create more of themselves. That's beyond me.
***You Do know science doesn't PROVE anything, right?
Self-replicating molecules bring to mind the association and dissociation of, say, the polar bonds in water molecules...broken and re-formed in less than a nanosecond. IF I add "food" I may end up with hydrogen peroxide or ozone or heavy water or something else, but not "life." Google Jesus on "living water."
I don't know enough about Game Theory to speak on replicator mutants but they were creepy cool on Stargate and Criminal Minds.
This is what you get for posting a chemistry/biochemistry article on a board lacking science majors. Essentially, I don't understand anything about your article except that someone wants to postulate on how life began and they have devised an experiment that makes them happy.
This is my opinion/comment.
Sincerely,
-me
Please enjoy ANY opportunity to call me whatever. Just keep it clean enough for these boards.
