LONG STORY SHORT (Episode 5): Can You Solve The Water Paradox?
Linking polymers — the required building blocks for all living things — is an essential step in the creation of life. Without such linking, there is no building of the DNA and RNA strands that are crucial for the process.
The Water Paradox is a BIG problem!(Screenshot from YouTube)
How important are polymers? Here’s how the smart guys at the Discovery Institute, who produced the following video, explain it:
“We’re often told that origin of life experiments have simulated the production of life’s building blocks under conditions that mimicked the early earth. Or at least that’s what many textbooks say.
“But is this really true? This video deals with one particular challenge to evolving life from chemicals: forming biopolymers under natural conditions.
“Watch this video to appreciate how origin of life experiments don’t come anywhere close to accounting for the vast complexity of biology:”