Was Central Dogma Violated in Abiogenesis?

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Continuing the discussion from The helix, of DNA fame, may have arisen with startling ease:

@Mung was curious how this paper:

Relates to the central Dogma:

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How does this view of DNA fit the central dogma?

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The Central Dogma was never meant to address abiogenesis. The Central Dogma is only a general rule for modern organisms with known exceptions like reverse transcriptase.

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So when life, and evolution, first got its start, the central dogma did not apply, but then later, life evolved in such a way that the central dogma did apply.

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The central dogma has nothing to do with this. What do you think is the connection?

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There is no connection. His question is off topic and this is likely to be moved to another thread.

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I don’t get the relevance either. Also, the helical nature of DNA is due to Watson-Crick base pairing and the sugar-phosphate backbone structure when in certain solvents at certain temperature ranges.

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The Central Dogma is just a human concept that generally applies to modern organisms. It isn’t a natural law or anything like that.

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None that you can see, anyways. So what is the topic of this thread? I’ll try to stay on topic.

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None that any of us can see. Go ahead and explain.

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