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To: Dutchboy88

“Why don’t you give us the most powerful arguments for first living cell arising randomly with the 6 feet of DNA structures necessary to codify not only the organization of the cell, but its replication system, the repair system, the communication system, the fabrication system and its integration system with soon to be surrounding cells.”

Well, we could always preform an experiment. It would take a long time, so instead, let’s perform a thought experiment, but instead of shooting for what you describe above, let’s go for something simpler, say a nano-sized CF-53 Panasonic i7 laptop with Windows 7 Professional x64 with integrated nano-solar cells for power.

First, we fill a billion (or so) beakers full of the elemental powders from which the above were formed, put some sea water in, and then bombarded the laptop soup in the beakers with lightening for a few hundred million years (or so).

What are the chance of getting our nano-laptop and OS. Pretty good, right? After all, that’s a WAY simpler setup than a self-replicating cell.

Do you think that we would eventually obtain a single integrated circuit chip forming in the beaker? And then the chip should eventually EVOLVE all by itself into the laptop (with operating system) after being bombarded by cosmic rays for a long time after that? After all, bombarding an integrated circuit (or cell) with cosmic rays would be like bombarding an Intel i7 fabrication plant with 20mm depleted uranimum shells from an A-10 Warthog, and expecting to get an i9 processor coming out afterwards.

If organic life formed by accident in a similar scenario, then certainly there should be no problem with obtaining the laptop and operating system in a like fashion, because after all, the laptop and OS are a few thousand trillion times simpler than, say, the Homo Sapiens species. In fact, we should obtain the laptop and OS much faster because they are so much simpler.

I wonder how long we’ll have to shake our beakers?


17 posted on 02/07/2014 11:43:41 AM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: catnipman
"I wonder how long we’ll have to shake our beakers?"

Sounds like a rap song...Shake your beakers, shake your beakers.

However, you have aptly described the problem. The possibilities are non-existent. As Stephen Meyer writes, it would be like marking a single atom in the entire universe, putting all of the mass in a barrel, then picking it out of the barrel. Fairly small. No matter how much we shake our beakers.

19 posted on 02/07/2014 12:23:31 PM PST by Dutchboy88
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