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FAILING TO DEMONSTRATE PREBIOTIC PLAUSIBILITY: CONFUSING LAB RESULTS WITH REALITY

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  Failing to Demonstrate Prebiotic Plausibility: Confusing Lab Results with Reality (See,  "Q's Response to Richard Carrier: About the Debate,"  for context) (See also,  "Q's Open Challenge to Richard Carrier" , and  "The 'Fatal Flaw' with Richard Carrier's '1 in 10^41' Argument for Abiogenesis" ) Experimental results are 'infinitely' better than "toy land" chemistry, but still represent idealized conditions that are frequently not indicative of the real-world. "Prebiotically plausible” is probably one of the most overused phrases in the origin of life field. There are no agreed upon standards, no consensus recognition or understanding of what qualifies as “prebiotically plausible”. What is “prebiotically plausible” to one investigator is “implausible” to another. Thus, just because a study claims to be “prebiotically plausible” doesn’t mean it actually is, and just because a molecule can be synthesized in
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THE "FATAL FLAWS" WITH RICHARD CARRIER'S "EVOLUTIONARY" HAND-WAVING TO THE ORIGIN OF LIFE

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  The "Fatal Flaws" with Richard Carrier's  "Evolutionary" Hand-Waving to the Origin of Life  (from Self-Replicators to Cellular Life) (See,  "Q's Response to Richard Carrier: About the Debate,"  for context) (See also,  "Q's Open Challenge to Richard Carrier" , and  "The 'Fatal Flaw' with Richard Carrier's '1 in 10^41' Argument for Abiogenesis" ) This brings us to another "Fatal Flaw." Richard glosses over the rest. He jumps from A all the way to Z, invoking "evolution" to solve the rest. But that amounts to hand-waving, and won't cut it (Yes, I’ve read all his cited sources, and they do not change this conclusion. In fact, Richard seems unaware of all they leave out, and the huge gaps that still remain). As I've told him before, jumping from a single self-replicator to life is like saying, "Hitler failed his entrance exam for art school. One thing led to another. And the
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THE "FATAL FLAWS" WITH RICHARD CARRIER'S RNA SELF-ASSEMBLY EXAMPLES

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   The "Fatal Flaws" with Richard Carrier's  RNA Self-Assembly Examples (See,  "Q's Response to Richard Carrier: About the Debate,"  for context) (See also,  "Q's Open Challenge to Richard Carrier" , and  "The 'Fatal Flaw' with Richard Carrier's '1 in 10^41' Argument for Abiogenesis" ) Richard Carrier’s claim : "Another error Totani makes having the same effect relates to a different problem. Totani mentions that we have already discovered  actual   self-replicating RNA sequences between 100 and 150 nucleotides ( Wachowiusa & Holliger 2019 ;   Horning & Joyce 2016 ); but these have been shown to   self-assemble   in natural conducive environments from smaller sequences. So they did not have to arrive purely at random as Totani assumes..." "Even if we were to estimate the probability of a single specific one, we still end up in the realm of accessible probability. For example,  Wachowiusa &
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