Hi Phil, and List,
When the Aliens do land, I'll do all
I can to promote as the chief Press Officer
for the new Earth Chamber of (Interstellar)
Commerce! Tell'em how wonderful we are.
Until then, I'm cutting you off. No more
free drinks.
Sterling K. Webb
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From: "JoshuaTreeMuseum" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:46 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] They're Leprechauns
Sterling:
You're kidding right?
The Earth and it's inhabitants are mediocre? That pantheon of really
smart guys you mentioned are mediocre? Elvis, the most perfectly
evolved human being and the reason for the existence of the universe
is merely mediocre? So you're telling me that rock n roll, modern art
& literature, science, Thai food, 57 Chevys, Hollywood movies, are
not magnificent? Just a byproduct of the hallowed Building Blocks.
Nothing special about matter appearing out of nothing, organizing
itself into living cells, then evolving intelligence, then technology,
then the Gibson hollow body electric guitar. Nah that kind of stuff
happens all the time. We just don't know about it with our puny
telescopes and crummy spectrometers. We're like those rotifers that
could speak without a larynx, think without a cerebral cortex, but yet
could not build a simple telescope, and thus lived in their own Local
Bubble of ignorance. Maybe it was the lack of opposable thumbs?
It doesn't take much to see that the Earth is an incredibly special
place. For one thing it harbors life. Let's take just one of the
hundreds of exacting parameters for life and apply it to our Local
Neighborhood. Magnetospheres for example. Examine the magnetospheres
of all the other planets in the Solar System. They're all mediocre
and screwed up! Earth's magnetosphere on the other hand is perfect for
life. It's magnificent!
I know that Clifton, Ferreira and Land are considered mavericky, but
they do have equations to back up their assertions. And we all know
the magico-religious importance of formulae. What if some of our most
basic assumptions are wrong?
We don't know that things are like this all over. We don't have a
clue really.
I know this may sound all creationy and all, but Fred Hoyle was no
fool.
The laws of probability are working against us. We are a magnificent
impossibility!
The Evolution of Life, Probability Considerations
and Common Sense-Part Three
By Dr. John Ankerberg and Dr. John Weldon
The Odds of a Complex Molecule
Noted astronomer Fred Hoyle uses the Rubik cube to illustrate the odds
of getting a
single molecule, in this case a biopolymer. Biopolymers are biological
polymers, i.e., large
molecules such as nucleic acids or proteins. In the fascinating
illustration below, he calls
the idea that chance could originate a biopolymer "nonsense of a high
order":
At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik
cube will
concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind
person moving
the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 1050 blind persons each with a
scrambled
Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all
simultaneously arriving at
the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random
shuffling at just one
of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not
only biopolymers
but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by
chance in a
primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a
high order.13
DeNouy provides another illustration for arriving at a single molecule
of high dissymmetry
through chance action and normal thermic agitation. He assumes 500
trillion shakings
per second plus a liquid material volume equal to the size of the
earth. For one molecule it
would require "10243 billions of years." Even if this molecule did
somehow arise by chance, it
is still only one single molecule. Hundreds of millions are needed,
requiring compound
probability calculations for each successive molecule. His logical
conclusion is that "it is
totally impossible to account scientifically for all phenomena
pertaining to life."14
Even 40 years ago, scientist Harold F. Blum, writing in Time's Arrow
and Evolution,
wrote that, "The spontaneous formation of a polypeptide of the size of
the smallest known
proteins seems beyond all probability."15
Noted creation scientists Walter L. Bradley and Charles Thaxton,
authors of The Mystery
of Life's Origin: Reassessing Current Theories, point out that the
probability of assembling
amino acid building blocks into a functional protein is approximately
one chance in 4.9 X
10191.16 "Such improbabilities have led essentially all scientists who
work in the field to reject
random, accidental assembly or fortuitous good luck as an explanation
for how life began."
17 Now, if a figure as "small" as 5 chances in 10191 is referenced by
such a statement,
then what are we to make of the kinds of probabilities below that are
infinitely less? The
mind simply boggles at the remarkable faith of the materialist.
According to Coppedge, the probability of evolving a single protein
molecule over 5
billion years is estimated at 1 chance in 10161. This even allows some
14 concessions to
help it along which would not actually be present during evolution.18
Again, this is no
chance.
Cells and Bacteria
Consider that the smallest theoretical cell is made up of 239
proteins. Further, at least
124 different types of proteins are needed for the cell to become a
living thing. But the
simplest known self-reproducing organisms is the H39 strain of PPLO
(mycoplasma) con
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