DNA .... the atheist's kryptonite

Bullshit. First, because atheism, in its rigorous formulation, is nothing more than suspicion of unsupported mythology fanboy assertions. That is IT. Equivalently, it consists of “YOU assert that your magic man exists, YOU support your assertions”, preferably with something better than “my mythology says so”.

Second, the question of the origin of life is NOT part of the remit of “atheism”, it’s part of the remit of SCIENCE. And, since you decided to wade foolishly into the requisite discoursive waters, I’m here to tell you that over 100,000 peer reviewed scientific papers document in exquisite detail, the laboratory experiments establishing that every chemical reaction implicated in the origin of life works. Oh, and your resurrection of the Pasteur Canard is merely one of numerous creationist canards I cover in detail here.

Indeed, life IS chemistry writ large. Millions of chemical reactions are taking place in your body right now, and if some of those reactions stop, then you die.

If fatuous assertions by mythology fanboys about magic from a cartoon magic man being purportedly “necessary” for life on Earth, were something other than ex recto fabrications arising from ignorance, then the pharmaceutical industry as we know it would not exist. That industry has successfully synthesised tens of thousands of chemical compounds that are effective at treating a wide range of human diseases.

As for the aforementioned research in prebiotic chemistry (which you obviously knew nothing about before I stepped in here), that has now moved on to experiments with synthetic model protocells. You can learn more about this from here, here and here.

In addition, I was recently made aware of four peer reviewed scientific papers by a team of Japanese scientists, who demonstrated in the laboratory that not only can RNA strands undergo self-replication, but that they can produce a molecular ecosystem via Darwinian evolution.

Oh, and I devoted a nice little article to the origin of life, and the current scientific findings on this matter, in this handy Google Docs document:

Note that I cite no less than eighty two peer reviewed scientific papers supporting the statements made in that document.

As for DNA, we have known for decades about its chemistry. Indeed, I have in my collection no less than nine peer reviewed scientific papers, devoted to the prebiotic synthesis of nucleotides. Here are the citations:

[1] Chemoselective Multicomponent One-Pot Assembly Of Purine Precursors In Water by Matthew W Powner, John D Sutherland and Jack W Szostak, Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(46): 16677-16688 (24th November 2010). This paper can be found here:

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja108197s

[2] Selective Prebiotic Formation Of RNA Pyrimidine And DNA Purine Nucleosides by Jianfeng Xu, Václav Chmela, Nicholas J Green, David A Russell, Mikołaj J Janicki, Robert W Góra, Rafał Szabla, Andrew D Bond and John D Sutherland, Nature, 582: 60-66 (4th June 2020). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2330-9

[3] A Prebiotic Synthesis Of Canonical Pyrimidine And Purine Ribonucleotides by Hyo-Joong Kim and Justin Kim, Astrobiology, 19(5): 669-674 (2019). This paper can be found here:

https://www.liebertpub.com/suppl/doi/10.1089/ast.2018.1935

[4] A Prebiotically Plausible Scenario Of An RNA-Peptide World by Felix Müller, Luis Escobar, Felix Xu, Ewa Węgrzyn, Milda Nainytė, Tynchtyk Amatov, Chun‐Yin Chan, Alexander Pichler & Thomas Carell, Nature, 605: 279-284 (12th May 2022). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04676-3

[5] A Prebiotically Plausible Synthesis Of Pyrimidine β-Ribonucleosides And Their Phosphate Derivatives Involving Photoanomerization by Jianfeng Xu, Maria Tsanakopoulou, Christopher J Magnani, Rafał Szabla, Judit E Šponer, Jiří Šponer, Robert W Góra and John D Sutherland, Nature Chemistry, 9(4): 303-309 (April 2017). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2664

[6] Prebiotically Plausible Oligoribonucleotide Ligation Facilitated By Chemoselective Acetylation by Frank R Bowler, Christopher KW Chan, Colm D Duffy, Béatrice Gerland, Saidul Islam, Matthew W Powner, John D Sutherland and Jianfeng Xu, Nature Chemistry, 5(5): 383-389 (May 2013). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.1626

[7] Selective Prebiotic Formation Of RNA Pyrimidine And DNA Purine Nucleosides by Jianfeng Xu, Václav Chmela, Nicholas J Green, David A Russell, Mikołaj J Janicki, Robert W Góra, Rafał Szabla, Andrew D Bond and John D Sutherland, Nature, 582: 60-66 (4th June 2020). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2330-9

[8] Synthesis Of Activated Pyrimidine Ribonucleotides In Prebiotically Plausible Conditions by Matthew W. Powner, Béatrice Gerland and John D. Sutherland, Nature, 459: 239-242 (14th May 2009). This paper can be found here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08013

[9] Synthesis Of Aldehydic Ribonucleotide And Amino Acid Precursors By Photoredox Chemistry by Dougal J Ritson and John D Sutherland, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(22): 5845-5847 (27th May 2013). This paper can be found here:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/anie.201300321

Looks like your assertions are crumbling to dust.

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