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eytonsearth Site Admin
Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 221 Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2005 3:57 pm Post subject: Origin of Life / Clay as a Templating Unit - Sandia Labs |
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"The early studies of Cairns-Smith (1966; 1992) and Friebele et al. (1980), in particular, advocated the role of clay minerals and their surfaces as a templating unit capable of sorbing organic material (amino acids and nucleotides) from a chaotic organic-rich aqueous solution, followed by polymerization of the units to form life-critical biomolecules.
"Although initially considered a novel alternative origin view, this “life from rocks” theme was resurrected in the 1990’s by several research groups who confirmed the intimate association of biomolecules on and in clay minerals (Pitsch et al., 1995; Violente et al., 1995; Rhode, 1999). Moreover, there was much debate on the possibility that clay interlayers and surfaces promoted the polymerization of isolated nucleotides into RNA-like compounds (Ferris, 1993; Ertem and Ferris, 1998). These heterogeneous templating reactions could have led to an increase in the possible protoncleic acids from which life ultimately emerged (Ertem and Ferris, 1996).
For a more practical pharmaceutical—and less philosophical—application, recent work has shown that the double hydroxide clays (anionic clays) can incorporate DNA molecules in their interlayers and provide a suitable drug carrier for the gene therapy treatment of leukemia (Choy et al., 2000). Intercalated clays have also been shown to be effective carriers in the gastrointestinal release of selected cationic drugs (Fejer et al., 2001) including chemotherapeutic treatment of colorectal cancer (Lin et al., 2002).
Speculation on the origin of life is beyond the scope of this study, however, the ability of clay surfaces to selectively absorb biomolecules, or the monmeric and oligomeric units of these macromolecules, can be addressed."
- Randall T. Cygan, Clifford K. Ho, and Chester J. Weiss
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185 and Livermore, California 94550 _________________ ~ Jason
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Australiasearth
Joined: 13 Nov 2005 Posts: 11 Location: Australia
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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found this to be an interesting article:
http://hauns.com/~DCQu4E5g/Miracle.html
Do you really know what God meant when He said that He made Adam from the clay of the Earth? We tend to think that God meant that He literally made Adam from clay which he took from the Earth. What God really meant is that He made Adam from the same clay from which He made the Earth. And that clay is? Atoms, electrons and protons. The planet and everything on it is made from atoms, the clay of the Earth. Man is also made of nothing but atoms, electrons and protons. The clay of the Earth. |
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presley
Joined: 13 Dec 2006 Posts: 3
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Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Australiasearth wrote: | found this to be an interesting article:
Do you really know what God meant when He said that He made Adam from the clay of the Earth? We tend to think that God meant that He literally made Adam from clay which he took from the Earth. What God really meant is that He made Adam from the same clay from which He made the Earth. And that clay is? Atoms, electrons and protons. The planet and everything on it is made from atoms, the clay of the Earth. Man is also made of nothing but atoms, electrons and protons. The clay of the Earth. |
that is some nice interpretation but then everyone got different views. |
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