Thread: How We Came To Being, Step By Step

When proteins are made from the information in DNA, a working RNA copy of the gene is made for use by ribosomes, the protein factories of the cell. Therefore RNA, like DNA, stores genetic information, and, like proteins, it also performs chemical reactions.
Bringing RNA into the picture solves the chicken and egg problem. RNA can be both chicken and egg.
What this means to evolutionary biologists is that life could well have BEGUN with organisms made largely of RNA.
This idea of an 'RNA world' has been debated since the 1960's, but Cech and Altman's discovery has convinced most scientists that it is at least possible.
It is now known that RNA is at the heart of many of the basic functions in the cell, and probably evolved in the RNA world. [/b]

http://www.actionbioscience.org/newfrontie...ares_poole.html
See as it say in the article RNA can be chicken and egg so a organism only needs RNA to survive kind of like the HIV virsus. It most of been a sick day in heaven when god decided to create HIV to kill lots of african children. DNA itself is not complex and is formed proberly later then simple RNA, whe DNA does appear which it can by a fractal pattarn then it get all the self assembling quality. Also order would not have been a big of a selective advantage early on when the RNA makes up most of the life form.

However, this is not always so. Rather, those organisms that leave the most offspring behind, simple or complex, do best. Greater complexity is sometimes a consequence of evolution, but simplification can also be a winning strategy -- it all depends on the environment.[/b]

Originally Posted by Keeper

DNA tells the cell how to make Protean (as you know)

what I wish to know is how did the Cell learn how to record the proper sequence of a super-complex molecule in such an ingenius way, and at the same time teach the itself how to us that molecule could bne replicated by using the DNA and RNA molecules

that is the question

a question is what you have just doen

Teach is to instruct someone on scertain matters, alowing them to replicate them, or understand a concept
[/b]

It has nothing to do with learning how to do anything. It's a chemical reation--albeit a very complex one--nothing more.

Originally Posted by Keeper

DNA tells the cell how to make Protean (as you know)

what I wish to know is how did the Cell learn how to record the proper sequence of a super-complex molecule in such an ingenius way, and at the same time teach the itself how to us that molecule could bne replicated by using the DNA and RNA molecules

that is the question

a question is what you have just doen

Teach is to instruct someone on scertain matters, alowing them to replicate them, or understand a concept
[/b]

What is "or"?

Originally Posted by becomingagodo

Keeper you wanted a summary of evolution http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=RabidApe here you go it a ten minaute video of all of evolution posted by RabidApe he said he is going to post a video of the bigbang soon. Keeper pleese watch the video as you said you want to understand evolution.
[/b]

I added that to my: 'Stuff to use for Christian-debates'-map Thanks!

EDIT: So keeper, why DID god put in remnants of retroviral DNA in chimps DNA and in our DNA?