It's both sad and interesting how hard some people will fight, not to know something. This thread and it's link does not propose any particular solution to the long-standing question of the origin of life. It simply illuminates a small relevant chemical observation. And yet the absurdity of many of these responses is embarrassing. Or should be embarrassing to any thinking human being; because they are so absurdly unnecessary, and pointlessly defensive.
It's like seeing a group of people standing around the front end of a car, all claiming that there must be a monster inside it that 'makes the car go'. Then someone among them proposes that they open the hood and take a look, to see if they can figure out what is actually making the car go, and the rest of them freak out and start pulling their hair and falling prostrate and pounding the earth and shouting that they must NEVER actually look under that hood!
One has to wonder what all that fuss is really about. Are they really afraid the monster will jump out of the car and do … what to them? Or are they just afraid to discover that there is no monster under the hood, at all, and something else is there that they won't understand?
Prejudice and fear prior to investigation is a very strange phenomena. It seems that many of us love our ignorance so much that we loathe to dispel it by seeking knowledge of the truth. And that's not only an unhealthy way to live, it's just flat out a dishonest way to live.
Whatever the truth is about the origins of life, we should have the curiosity and the courage to seek it out. What are we so afraid of? That our ignorance will be dispelled? That our superstitions will be shown unwarranted? What kind of coward would think this is a bad thing?
