Q's RESPONSE: WRITING FROM THE CONTINUUM

   The "Fatal Flaw" with Richard Carrier's  PNA Self-Replicator 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 : " In actual fact it’s  more likely RNA is an evolved structure , and that life originated with a simpler molecule like PNA, which is more robust and far easier to assemble in nature  ( Singhal et al. 2014 ) . Simple self-replicating PNA strands are an established fact  (the  Lee peptide  being just one of them ; we now have the  Plöger-Kiedrowski peptide ,   the  Singhal-Nielsen peptide ,  and so on). Indeed PNA automatically assembles in the expected conditions (Leman et al., “Dynamic Chemical Assembly of Peptide Nucleic Acids” in  XVIIIth International Conference on Origin of Life  2017;...

    The "Fatal Flaw" with Richard Carrier's  RNA Self-Replicator Examples (See,  "Q's Response to Richard Carrier: About the Debate,"  for context) (See also,  "Q's Open Challenge to Richard Carrier" ) Richard Carrier’s claim :    " From this he estimates,   counting  all comparable planets and moons  with suitable environs  abundant evidence  entails for the known  universe , the probability of a self-replicating chain of RNA  (which we know  exist :    Tews & Meyers 2017 ,  Robertson & Joyce 2014 ,  Lincoln et al. 2009 , etc. ) arising in those environs somewhere in the universe." Q's Verdict : The first study has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the origin of life, and the remaining two are proof of concept/principle studies for lab-engineered RNA self-replicators that are too complex to spontaneously emerge by chance, but that demonstrate such could exist  in pri...