─Nexus 6 , the murder of Deism or Theism?
The evolution of types and forms of intelligence continues to break
clichés. Scientific research by Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith (organic
chemist and molecular biologist at Glasgow University) in the 20 th century
proposes a 'clay theory' to explain the origin of life, focusing on the
interaction of active sites on clay mineral surfaces with simple organic
molecules. This idea was first introduced by Cairns-Smith in (^1966) [ 51 ]. He
proposed that during the formation of a mineral crystal, ─particular types of
lattice defects (e.g., dislocations) generally replicate as a necessary part of
the crystallization process─. Since these imperfections appear to replicate,
they are self-selecting, so it is likely that any crystallization process
involves rudimentary biological evolution. In 1974 , MIT Biology research
scientist Hyman Hartman (^) [ 52 ] used this idea to suggest that metabolism
might have evolved from a simple rather than a complex environment
[although metabolism was not mentioned in the 1966 Cairns-Smith paper].
Clays can replicate and drive the evolution of metabolism; they have the
catalytic ability to synthesize monomers (amino acids, nucleotides, etc.)
and polymerize them, resulting in peptide RNA worlds in which RNA
replicates (genes) and, in cooperation with encoded peptides, drives the
evolution of the cell. There is a great variety of clay minerals, but from the
perspective of this work, the smectic group is the most important.
But in this fourth Industrial Revolution (^) [ 53 ] The myth of the "clay