Re: The tar paradox

On 14/12/2024 5:25 pm, erik simpson wrote:

On 12/13/24 9:51 PM, MarkE wrote:

On 14/12/2024 3:31 pm, erik simpson wrote:

Without reproduction tar is what you get for sure.  Nitrogen is high enough concentration cause death by asphyxiation.

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No reproduction prebiotically, therefore you're agreeing that the tar paradox is an OoL showstopper?
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I misprinted.  It's not a showstopper if the prebiotic reproduction is present. It might be very slow or fail at some point.  The important thing is that it's happening in many places.
 

What do you mean by "prebiotic reproduction"? Self-replicating naked RNA? An autocatalytic set containing informational polymers?
In either case, these are disallowed if the tar paradox is unresolved. And it appears to not only be unresolved, but largely unacknowledged.
Your statement "The important thing is that it's happening in many places", is a vague, unsupported assertion, not an argument.