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Scientists are on track to solve the mystery of how ‘chemicals’ came alive

May 25, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,

The questions posed by Mr. Stanley Permaul in Kaieteur News last week have been answered.

“How can chemicals suddenly decide to become alive? And, if so, why would they have a will to continue, after many evolutionary twists and turns, to more complex life forms?”

Mr. Permaul asks, adding, “In my humble opinion, I think it would take a considerable leap of faith to believe this.”

It doesn’t take a leap, really. The international press is now buzzing with the news that scientists are on track to solve the mystery of how “chemicals” came alive.

An English chemist, John D. Sutherland has demonstrated through experiments how nucleotides could have assembled themselves to exhibit life and also self-replicate. Dr. Sutherland has produced a molecule that stores genetic information and could have triggered the first synthesis of life’s protein.

His discovery is being hailed as a major advance in prebiotic chemistry; it is the first time a plausible explanation has been offered for how an information carrying biological molecule could have formed through natural processes from chemicals on primitive earth.

Given enough time and the right environmental conditions, apparently life is what happens to a combination of certain chemicals.

Persons wishing to learn more should Google: How RNA got started

Arnold Chance

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