The Anti-Abortion Ideologues Are Ignorant Of Biology

One of the standard arguments from the so-called "Pro-Life" folks is that "Life begins at conception" and that scientists agree. Click on the link below for a podcast that blows this argument out of the water:

The Search For What It Means To Be Alive

Did Life Begin As An RNA Replicator?

"One of the biggest mysteries in the origin of life is how the first biological molecules came into being. Today’s cells use complex assemblies of biological molecules to manufacture DNA, RNA and proteins. How did life work before those molecules existed?"

An RNA molecule that can make copies of a variety of RNAs adds new support to the RNA-world theory.

The Hard Problem Of How Life Began Continues To Get Softer

"Chemists report today that a pair of simple compounds, which would have been abundant on early Earth, can give rise to a network of simple reactions that produce the three major classes of biomolecules—nucleic acids, amino acids, and lipids—needed for the earliest form of life to get its start. Although the new work does not prove that this is how life started, it may eventually help explain one of the deepest mysteries in modern science."

Researchers may have solved origin-of-life conundrum
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