Please if you don't know about
Abiogenesis the read it at
wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AbiogenesisHow did life originate ? By evolution ? NO. At this moment the HYPOTHESIS is that
Abiogenesis caused life to originate by some random mixing of chemicals in primordial soups resulting in some early form of CELL etc.Why is it still a Hypothesis even after years of research and experiments?
Lets bring in some facts:From wikipedia: "A fundamental question is about the nature of the first self-replicating molecule. Since replication is accomplished in modern cells through the cooperative action of proteins and nucleic acids, the major schools of thought about how the process originated can be broadly classified as "proteins first" and "nucleic acids first".What do you need to make even the most basic form of life? Either some specific protein or some specific nucleic acid.
Use some logic what are the chances so many amino acids or nucleotide monomers would be formed in one place?Suppose they were all formed in primordial soups what are the chances they would arrange in a specific 1000 long sequence?Why can't they arrange in any random sequence? Because even though infinite sequences could be formed only a very small fraction are actually useful. Even if one amino acid in a whole sequence is changed the protein becomes dysfunctional as in many diseases.
We agree that a rock is not living, that a certain degree of complexity is required for something to live. We have agreed that a television is complex but it is not living and cannot replicate, hence a specific complexity is required for life.
Suppose we take the protein first view then this complexity could be like a specific protein sequence of 1000 amino acids.
Note: I being a medical student realise that in reality the process for replication is extremely complex even for the most simplest living thing but here we are going on suppositions of scientists to probably meet the minimum requirements.
Lets do some Maths:How many years since the Earth was created =
5 billion years = 1.5768 x 10^16 seconds
What are the chances you would win a 10 digit sequence lottery? If you know maths it you'll calculate around approx 1 in 10^10 chances
What are the Chances you would win a
1000 digit sequence lottery = around 10^1000
So even by the simplest of sequence it would take 10^1000 chances to make a simple protein by chance.
It means that ever second since the Earth was created you would be doing =10^1000/1.57 x 10^16 = 10^984 chances ! that is every
pico (10^-12 sec) second it would be taking 10^972 seconds !
And chemical reactions are mostly very slow.
Someone pointed to me that all you would need would be some self replicating
crystal and the rest would be taken over by evolution.
Here are some problems in the view:
1. Most scientist (as you saw on
wikipedia) don't have this school of thought. Why? Because you need to know biology before arriving at hypothesis.
2. Suppose we agree it was a crystal then it still faces the same problems as the 'protein first' or 'nucleic acid first' view faced.
Because we can all see that no one has ever seen or produced a self replicating crystal, and the crystals we have seen or know about don't replicate, so the logical deduction would be that such a crystal would be one in an infinite possibilities as a protein or nucleic acid are. So the same concept would apply to defy it.
Another view that was presented was that how many lotteries are being played since the Earth is so Big?
Well I did some more maths to show that using the Earth's weight and the atomic mass unit you can calculate that the
Earth has around 2.34 x 10^50 atoms, so even if there was a lottery played on every atom in this world (highly illogical) you would still be doing 10^922 chances !
So here you have
LOGICAL, SCIENTIFIC , MATHEMATICAL proof that random chance cannot create specific complexity such as life.
As humans can create complex objects like a television and that random chance cannot not form a television similarly random chance cannot form life (which humans cannot create even) and hence an intelligent creator is definitely required.
If you agree to this point then we can further discuss about who this intelligent creator can be but otherwise it's pointless to go further.
Any questions? please comment.
Some people might incorrectly suppose I'm talking something about the second law of thermodynamics and probability mixture, well for them they would be disappointed to know that I agree with them that a system can undergo a decrease in Entropy, so what? Doesn't prove anything.
