I am writing this new question after realizing that I did not use correct terminology the last time I tried to ask this question.
Again, Aristotle says in his Posterior Analytics, a treatise on logic and knowing, that "we say we know something truly, and not in the manner of the sophist, when we know the cause, that it is the cause, and that it can not be any other way." My hesitation in accepting abiogenesis stems from the fact that I don't see how life can come from things that aren't alive themselves. What was said in the answers to the previous question I asked was that the right mixture of proteins and a lightning bolt could produce amino acids. This still leaves the problem of the amino acids forming into strands of DNA and becoming an organized, living body.
Meeting the three conditions laid down by Aristotle for knowing, explain to me how life can come from things that aren't alive.
I hope the terminology meets with general approval.
2007-07-22
16:27:12
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