tubi417 writes:
How likely is it that one of these cells is going to have a mutation for the process of protein synthesis? A mutation that would create anything beneficial to the cell? If any of these cells had a mutation they would probably die.
Well tubi how likely is it that the density of water is 1? Or that the solid form of water floats? Or the fact that Iron binds with O2? Life on every level is riddled with complexity and unlikely processes that have taken place. The fact that you are reading this is evidence of this.
If the density of the universe is not what it is nothing would live. How unlikely is your very birth? (to quote monty python) But yet you are here. Abiogenesis has occurred and perhaps someday mankind will discover how it did, just as man has discovered every other taboo subject the church has deemed was heresey to explore. The moon is not made of cheese and flageston does not exist.
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This message has been edited by 1.61803, 07-14-2004 10:38 AM
This message has been edited by 1.61803, 07-14-2004 10:39 AM