"TomHendricks474"  wrote in message
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> I don't think a single metabolism system emerged
> to start life.  I think the entire planet had sun
> energy forced on it. And it is this forced collective
> energy that was the initial metabolism/energy that led
> to the Darwinian replicator and our modern day
> chemical energy system which all came later.
>
> Thus energy was forced on all the earth - and it
> was this energy that led to the more complex
> chemical energy systems of life.

Such that eventually, life emerged?  Regards, Brett.

> It was not the other way around. Here are two
> scenarios that I've seen suggested - that don't make
> sense to me.
> 1.  a fluke event
> starts a single entity that is born with
> the already highly evolved
> ability to use chemical energy.
>
> 2. a single
> replicator emerges. Then over time
> it  evolves a specific and independent
> metabolism system. Yet  in a catch 22 all
> through this evolving phase to get to
> a metabolism system, it  must have energy -
> and how can it get energy when its metabolism
> system is not yet evolved?
> It's like using a lightbulb to see better while
> your inventing the first lightbulb!
>
> Comment?
> Tom (th)
>
>
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