graywolf wrote:
Hard to accept that you are not somehow special, isn't it. Personally I believe random chance over >millions of years is the simplest answer.
Noted British Astonomer Fred Hoyle wrote (note I'm using this as an example of a noted and respected scientist, not that I agree with everything he says or that he's always correct... who is?)
"if one proceeds directly and straightforwardly in this matter, without being deflected by a fear of incurring the wrath of scientific opinion, one arrives at the conclusion that biomaterials with their amazing measure or order must be the outcome of intelligent design."
Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell was one in 10 *40,000 power. Since the number of atoms in the known universe is infinitesimally tiny by comparison (10 *80 power), he argued that even a whole universe full of primordial soup wouldnt have a chance. He claimed: The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program 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.
Hoyle compared the random emergence of even the simplest cell to the likelihood that "a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein." Hoyle also compared the chance of obtaining even a single functioning protein by chance combination of amino acids to a solar system full of blind men solving Rubik's Cube simultaneously.
Tom C.
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