Yes, from your (Cairns-Smith) viewpoint that may be what you think Wachtershauser was saying. However, what he actually said is that Cairns-Smith is wrong. Full stop.
Please, Tim, we’ve been through this many times. Your favorite theory and my favorite theory are completely different.
If you want to provide links to your clay origin web pages, please do so. Don’t demand that I provide them with free advertising. But if I am putting your words into Cairns-Smith’s mouth, then I apologize.
That is a bit of a strange response, IMO. I don’t know if you can be bothered with continuing our OOL discussion here—but, as you probably know, I don’t think there’s any good evidence that Cairns-Smith was incorrect—from Wachtershauser—or anyone else—and if you know differently, I would be delighted to hear about it!
Maybe that’s not what you are saying. Maybe you are just saying that you think Wachtershauser provided a complete story that you find parsimonious—and which doesn’t require earlier stages. That would not be so newsworthy for me, I already know all that.
Yes, from your (Cairns-Smith) viewpoint that may be what you think Wachtershauser was saying. However, what he actually said is that Cairns-Smith is wrong. Full stop.
Please, Tim, we’ve been through this many times. Your favorite theory and my favorite theory are completely different.
If you want to provide links to your clay origin web pages, please do so. Don’t demand that I provide them with free advertising. But if I am putting your words into Cairns-Smith’s mouth, then I apologize.
That is a bit of a strange response, IMO. I don’t know if you can be bothered with continuing our OOL discussion here—but, as you probably know, I don’t think there’s any good evidence that Cairns-Smith was incorrect—from Wachtershauser—or anyone else—and if you know differently, I would be delighted to hear about it!
Maybe that’s not what you are saying. Maybe you are just saying that you think Wachtershauser provided a complete story that you find parsimonious—and which doesn’t require earlier stages. That would not be so newsworthy for me, I already know all that.