RNA - The Discovery of Ribozymes (2-2)

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The Double Life of RNA: The Discovery of Ribozymes

Dr. Thomas Cech dicusses RNA, its characteristics, and its ability to act as an enzyme.

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  • @axisoffeeble Physics

  • @creationliberty that is not the point of this experiment, it is focused on(not necesserely focused on as it was an "accident") another step of evolution.. It aswerd not to the question "how did the information ensambled itsel?f" but to "how in the beggining of life when there were no proteins, did the catalitic reactions occured?" The catalitic reaction from wich Cech discovered this happened to be the ensemble of RNA. I´ve not yet seen your videos but I will as soon as I can. See ya

  • @creationliberty *sodium chloride*

  • @axisoffeeble Water molecules are designed in a particular way to form those snowflakes. As temperature drops, the molecules begin to lock into place (specifically at a 105 degree angle for the water molecule). Just the same, anyone studying minerals knows that the molecules contain information (i.e. sodium forms into cubes).

    These are obvious design features, and if someone wants to BELIEVE that pre-programmed information forms by random chance, that's fine... but that's not science.

  • @creationliberty : Where is the information necessary to build a snowflake "stored?" In the H2O molecule?

  • His conclusion is junk science. Information requires a storage unit. A storage unit requires information to construct storage. So which came first? The information, or the storage for information? He's assuming so many things already in place to say this is a theory of origin of life... it's not possible to list them all in 500-characters. These AT(U)CG letters are each, within themselves, massive blocks of coded information. They're just assuming all this information puts itself together. Dumb.

  • This is very interesting how RNA can reproduce and recreate itself and how it can be an enzyme.

    Amazing thanks for the video.

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  • Facinating! I love the process of science.

    Thanks for the vid.

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