quote:Originally posted by what4:
name any group of chemicals that have combined in complexity and came to life, and I will consider your theory. If you can’t prove that to me, then please don’t bother trying to impress me with all the other nonsense that is built around this impossibility.
You know what? I can't do that. I'm not smart enough to do that and you aren't equipped to understated it even if I could.
But I'll tell you this: (drum roll please . . . .) We don't know how it happened.
That's right, we don't know. Science doesn't have the answer. Yet. Hypothesis abound in scientific circles. The chances of the right types of chemicals coming together in the right mixture and forming self replicating molecules is astoundingly minimal. One Nobel PRize winning scientists put the odds of it happening at 1 chance in 10 to the 40,000th power (1 followed by 40,000 zeros).
In short, there is almost no chance that life would happen. Almost.
But give "Almost" an unimaginably long period of time -- a few thousands-million years, perhaps -- and "Almost" becomes probable.
The fact is this: You and I are here. Therefore it happened.
So, there. There is your proof.
Really,What4, science has come a long way since you slept through all your science classes a hundred years ago. We have gone from a wacky hypothesis that all animals evolved from lower life forms to discovering DNA to sequencing the entire human genome. Our understanding of how we got here is increasing at an accelerating pace. Science is getting closer and closer to fully understanding how we came to be and it excites me to think that we may have the answer before I power-down.
Before I became a full-blown atheist, I used to consider the thought that science is a means to understand the mind of God. There is still the the slightest possibility that science could find the signature of your God buried within the code. How cool would THAT be?
Too bad you can't be a part of that search.