Re: Life: Turn it upside down!

On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:00:21 -0400, JTEM <jtem01@gmail.com> posted yet
another self-parody:

 jillery wrote:
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Alkaline hydrothermal vents are far removed from living systems.

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

Yes, and so is a non-living system by definition.

If the conditions of abiogenesis persisted

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Assuming that there were such conditions on our planet.
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Assuming that abiogenesis ever occurred.

As stated.  What part of "if" do you not understand?

So that's not one but two a-priori assumptions, my
delightful bouquet of candied fruit.

Are you a-priori assuming otherwise?

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.

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So you're countering my proposal that we study non-life with this
talk of non-life.

How do you propose to study non-life without speaking of non-life?

Oo! There's a reason why you are my spicy enchilada of love, and
this is it!
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*Hugs!*

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