Re: Life: Turn it upside down!

  jillery wrote:

Alkaline hydrothermal vents are far removed from living systems.

Context, my delectable nutted cheese ball. This was raised
as an environment in which abiogenesis might occur.

If the conditions of abiogenesis persisted

Assuming that there were such conditions on our planet.
Assuming that abiogenesis ever occurred.
So that's not one but two a-priori assumptions, my
delightful bouquet of candied fruit.

Instead, consider the greater likelihood of an environment which
created an acidic gradient between layers of porous rocks.  There
would be, could be, nothing remotely resembling modern life, yet the
system as a whole would metabolize chemicals seeping from the ground
to build abiotic molecules enclosed within sheets of bilayer
phospholipids.

So you're countering my proposal that we study non-life with this
talk of non-life.
Oo! There's a reason why you are my spicy enchilada of love, and
this is it!
*Hugs!*
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