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Thats exactly it in a nutshell ... mathematical odds ... and there's no escaping them or bypassing them.
Originally posted by drakus
Another thing that I think we must never forget is that the Universe seems to be biased toward life.
Originally posted by Maslo
reply to post by tauristercus
Your fallacy is assuming that nature must select ONLY the insulin, and no other protein (or entirely different evolutionary path) would suffice.
Originally posted by tauristercus
Ok, I can just barely, barely, barely accept that nature may just have some how fluked it with insulin ... but how do you explain nature doing it another 25,000 times ... and some of those proteins are longer than insulin which means the odds against the longer ones is beyond imagination.
Polychaos dubium may have the largest genome known for any organism, consisting of 670 billion base pairs of DNA,[6] which is over 200 times larger than the human genome.
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
reply to post by tauristercus
Looking at nothing but the mathematical odds logically defeats Darwinism quite handily as you continue to explain in this thread, that is if you are willing to explore, examine and inform yourself of them.
Denial is a fundamental trait that all humans display in all area's of life for various reasons.
The denial of factual math is quite sad to observe however. It's like saying 1+1 doesn't equal 2 because we don't want it to. It's an emotionally based perspective.
But doing the maths shows that the odds of nature randomly assembling this short sequence is approximately 8 x 10^90 against. Do you have any idea how huge those odds are ... they're astronomical and more !
Another thing that I think we must never forget is that the Universe seems to be biased toward life.
Originally posted by Blue_Jay33
reply to post by drakus
Another thing that I think we must never forget is that the Universe seems to be biased toward life.
Actually as another poster already said that seems to be wrong, some scientists have even discredited this notion BECAUSE they believe in evolution, the point is because evolution takes so long by the time intelligent life evolves, the Star in their system makes life uninhabitable, and they would be killed off.
Fascinating article that fully supports evolution.
www.science20.com...
this process might be governed by a small number of very difficult evolutionary steps.
His model, published in the journal Astrobiology, suggests an upper limit for the probability of each step occurring is 10 per cent or less, so the chances of intelligent life emerging is low – less than 0.01 per cent over four billion years.
Dimitar Sasselov, a Bulgarian-born scientist working at Harvard Origins of Life Initiative made the amazing statement according to which the Milky Way has at least 150 Earth-like planets discovered so far by the NASA telescope. Sasselov goes on to assert that in fact the galaxy has about 100 million planets with conditions similar to those on Earth . During the last 15 years the astronomers have discovered at least 500 planets that look like our Earth.
Originally posted by rhinoceros
Before we speculate how likely it's that evolution leads to intelligent life, we should define intelligent life. Do fish represent intelligent life? How about molluscs or worms? How about single celled protists? Where do we draw the line?
Another objection is that the very form of the Drake equation assumes that civilizations arise and then die out within their original solar systems. If interstellar colonization is possible, then this assumption is invalid, and the equations of population dynamics would apply instead. One reply to such criticisms is that even though the Drake equation currently involves speculation about unmeasured parameters, it was not meant to be science, but intended as a way to stimulate dialog on these topics.
So yes lets have the dialog, but don't try and prove it, with statistical variables plugged into a math formula's that are suspect to begin with.