Probability and Spontaneous Proteins
17 What chance is there that the correct amino acids would come together to form a protein molecule? It could be likened to having a big, thoroughly mixed pile containing equal numbers of red beans and white beans. There are also over 100 different varieties of beans. Now, if you plunged a scoop into this pile, what do you think you would get? To get the beans that represent the basic components of a protein, you would have to scoop up only red ones—no white ones at all! Also, your scoop must contain only 20 varieties of the red beans, and each one must be in a specific, preassigned place in the scoop. In the world of protein, a single mistake in any one of these requirements would cause the protein that is produced to fail to function properly. Would any amount of stirring and scooping in our hypothetical bean pile have given the right combination? No. Then how would it have been possible in the hypothetical organic soup?
18 The proteins needed for life have very complex molecules. What is the chance of even a simple protein molecule forming at random in an organic soup? Evolutionists acknowledge it to be only one in 10 to the power of 113 (1 followed by 113 zeros). But any event that has one chance in just 10 to the power of 50 is dismissed by mathematicians as never happening. An idea of the odds, or probability, involved is seen in the fact that the number 10 to the power of 113 is larger than the estimated total number of all the atoms in the universe!
19 Some proteins serve as structural materials and others as enzymes. The latter speed up needed chemical reactions in the cell. Without such help, the cell would die. Not just a few, but 2,000 proteins serving as enzymes are needed for the cell’s activity. What are the chances of obtaining all of these at random? One chance in 10 to the power of 40,000! “An outrageously small probability,” Hoyle asserts, “that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup.” He adds: “If one is not prejudiced either by social beliefs or by a scientific training into the conviction that life originated [spontaneously] on the Earth, this simple calculation wipes the idea entirely out of court.”13
20 However, the chances actually are far fewer than this “outrageously small” figure indicates. There must be a membrane enclosing the cell. But this membrane is extremely complex, made up of protein, sugar and fat molecules. As evolutionist Leslie Orgel writes: “Modern cell membranes include channels and pumps which specifically control the influx and efflux of nutrients, waste products, metal ions and so on. These specialised channels involve highly specific proteins, molecules that could not have been present at the very beginning of the evolution of life.”14
2006-12-06 16:42:57
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answered by Anonymous
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You have to remember that proteins are not goal-directed. Evolution does not plan to make insulin. Rather, insulin could have been made by chance. Since there are so many proteins in the cell, a protein that served a function could have come up at random. It did take billions of years, and the first cells were not very complex. Still, it was an amazing achievement, almost unbelieveable. Even a single protein. There are two theories circulating on how organic molecules were made before enzymes. Either hydrothermal vents with static charges used their energy to synthesize Notrogens, Oxygens, Carbons, and hydrogens together to form an amino acid which were synthesized to make a protein, or it came on a comet. A meteor that hit earth did have some organic molecules. The proteins couldn't die, since they were never really alive. Could the first cell die? Well, the first cell probably did die, and very rapidly, since it could not sustain itself. But it's hard to define a point where the first cell was alive.
2006-12-06 17:17:21
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answered by Kevin S 3
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mose it is like your not stand there you are a time traveler like the rest of us and education was only a trace element of the real truth. the longer you look at the things we know the harder it is to remember how far we've come~sun has come and gone so many times in history that the Edgar Cayce style of overview show that ice is hold secrets now that the sun is still thawing out now, as we endure global warming we are instilling life into overlapping ideologies in time warp that occur in instantaneous freezing of ice age things that we know nothing of is slowly drifting on the warm side of the underneath of glaciers embedded with crustaceans of reentering forms of struggles to live by elements that are invisible or even not interpretable in real time as we lack where they were one hundred and eighty million years ago,poverty,stress,greed is the answer to your last sentence
2006-12-06 19:27:20
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answered by bev 5
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nicely miracles dont exist so that you'll rule that out i study a theory in a fictional e book so its probable a thoughts off even with the undeniable fact that it truly is a exciting theory. the universe expands and contracts its probable no longer plausable even with the undeniable fact that it were given me fascinated
2016-11-24 20:22:41
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answered by ? 4
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