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One of the starting materials is a single mirror image for which there is no plausible way to get it that way abiotically.
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One of the starting materials is a single mirror image for which there is no plausible way to get it that way abiotically.
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Given photosynthesis, the answer is "no", but then the question becomes: Can photosynthesis be markedly improved on or be done abiotically?
Is the FutureGen 'Clean Coal' Project Back in the Stimulus Bill? 2010
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Matthew, based on further reading it seems hydrocarbons can be produced abiotically, but there is heavy skepticism. rumor, I absolutely adore wikipedia.
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Of the 20% of abiotically pollinated species, 98% is by wind and 2% by water.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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The standard theory for the origin of life postulates that life arose from an abiotically produced soup of organic material e.g., Miller, 1953; Miller, 1992.
Luskin vs. Science (and Scientific American) - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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One can postulate that the necessary proteins formed abiotically in the primitive ocean, but there is virtually no experimental evidence for such a postulate.
Experts in creationism trials -- Shallit be? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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"If we can find processes that form such compounds in the upper atmosphere abiotically" - without the participation of life - "they might give us a clue to how life started on Earth."
R&D Mag - News 2010
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The debunking in this Nov. 6 article actually "un-debunks" an old idea from the 19th century that methane and other hydrocarbons might be produced abiotically, without fossil fuels.
Latest Articles 2009
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