Membranes are too complex to have existed during abiogenesis

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Claim

Membranes are too complex to have existed during abiogenesis.

Source

• Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., pp. 44-45.

Responses

1. Membranes are not necessarily complex structures, although they are in modern organisms. Due to the amphipathic (having a hydrophobic tail and a hydrophilic head) nature of phospholipids, when in water they will often self-assemble into a near-perfect lipid bilayer - the same structure that forms the membrane of biological cells.
2. In the proposed "RNA World" hypothesis, membranes would not have been necessary to aid in RNA molecules' self replication.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Argument from Ignorance
• Perfectionist Fallacy (need not be all or nothing)
• Suppressed Evidence

External Links

• Wikipedia: Lipid Bilayers

Related claims

• First cells couldn't come together by chance
• Evolution is baseless without a theory of abiogenesis
• Abiogenesis is speculative, without evidence

See Also

Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments