Thursday, May 24, 2007

Beginnings of Life? (Part 7)

Again we will just lay down some ground rules and define a few terms before really digging into the problems that exist in movement along the evolutionary railroad. There are three non-living agents that are players in this game we are playing. Everyone knows what a virus is - nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat. Viroids are closely related to viruses, they are RNA strands without a protective protein coat. Prions are the opposite of viroids - proteins without any associated nucleic acid. Organelles are proteins within cells that have specific functions just as organs do in a complex organism. The nucleus is the organelle which contains the "blueprint" for life: nucleic acid. The simplest life forms are prokaryotic cells. The distinguishing mark of prokaryotes is the absence of membrane bound organelles, including the nucleus. Eukaryotic cells have a membrane surrounding the nucleus.

An analysis of the way these all interact and behave will also disprove evolution as a viable means to continue exploring science. It should be safe to say that if evolution where true, a logical progression for it to take place is going from unassociated sugars to ribonucleic acid to deoxyribonucleic acid, simultaneous with amino acids finding association with each other to become proteins. At some time along the evolutionary railroad the proteins married the DNA and viruses were born. This was the beginning of single-celled life and as the proteins grew and evolved, naturally the RNA or DNA strands within the protein grew in size, function and importance, eventually becoming prokaryotic then eukaryotic cells and eventually evolving into multi cellular organisms.

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