"TomHendricks474"  wrote in message
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> << Tom, as I have said several times, and as several other people have
> said, it doesn't even make sense to TALK about "selection" of
> entities that do not reproduce >>
>
> Well I'm making up a new term called 'zorchtok'
> It happens to be a verb, noun, adjetive, etc.
>
> Zorchtok means that what chemicals that play a part in prebiotic
chemistry, and
> surivive the environment were likely to continue to be active chemicals in
> prebiotic chemistry,
> and that those that were altered
> in a way that made them inactive would not continue to play a part in
prebiotic
> chemistry.
>
> Now, whenever I incorrectly say selection (or chemical selection) please
> translate as zorchtok the correct term.

IMO it doesn't make sense to talk about zorchtok for nucleic acids.
Zorchtok keeps your polynucleotide intact for a few years, rather than
a few days, say.  It still is destroyed long before it can "evolve" into
something.  Just how many years of zorchtok are you talking about here
before your molecules "learn" how to reproduce?
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