Thank you, Chad J, for inspiring this revision.
How did the first DNA sequence get encoded with the instant ability to absorb food and reproduce itself? Being the first one, it had nothing to "evolve" from. And, if it got it wrong, it would be gone within a few hours.
"How long will it take a monkey with a typewriter to randomly type just the first 12 letters of the abc in the correct order?" The probability is: once in 3 billion years! (assuming he continuously types 1 letter per second). [The formula is : 26^12 seconds]
And, if we want a team of monkeys to produce, just once, all the 26 letters of the abc in the correct order, how many monkeys will it take? The probability is: 400 trillion monkeys might do it once in 400 trillion years!
So, how did the first DNA get encoded with all its genes, each gene (not each atom) being the equivalent of one letter?
Or, maybe, all evolutionary time estimates are wrong, and life in the universe did start trillions of years ago?
2007-10-29
10:18:46
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