Professor Lee Cronin
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first heard Jul 2026
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If you take a small chain of amino acids that would make up a protein and put it in water, it folds instantly in a few seconds, right?
And evolution does this.
So the answer
to the question of what experiment would we do?
How do we explain the primordial soup model?
The primordial soup model is actually over 70 years old and it has evolved a lot, forgive the pun.
And what that means today is we know that the environment is quite rich and the way the environment works with the chemistry is that quite complex chemical systems can emerge seemingly from what we call the inorganic world
and produce lifelike systems.
The breakthrough, the engineering breakthrough that Professor Tor was discussing was indeed a great engineering breakthrough, but it showed something very fundamental.
You could take these building blocks together and get them to do lifelike things.
So to answer James's question, it's simple.
If you can show that evolution can occur in rocks, in the inorganic world, in a meteorite or something, you can show you're on your way to generating sufficient complexity.
And indeed, we've shown this.
Now,
if we if we start to show this and show we can make a cell from scratch i don't think it disproves god i'm not in the where's the universe come from but i think pierce if i said to you you know if i took you to the iphone factory and said here's how iphones are made you wouldn't say oh i'm giving up any faith i had to be like okay that was a process that's the mechanism i understand science is about
Isn't it automatically that must be the case?
I don't disagree with that suggestion, but what we're talking about is slightly different, right?
So as I'm not a cosmologist, let's just say we have planet Earth, and planet Earth four billion years ago, how did life arise?
That is a solvable problem today.
I agree with you, understanding how we might come up with something from nothing is where we have the border of philosophy, theology and physics.
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