Harold Marowitz, an atheist physicist, created mathematical models by imagining broths of living bacteria that were superheated until all the complex chemicals were broken down into basic building blocks. After cooling the mixtures, Marowitz used physics calculations to conclude that the odds of a single bacterium reassembling by chance is one in 10 to the power of 100,000,000,000. Wow! How can I grasp such a large statistic? Well, it's more likely that I would win the state lottery every week for a million years by purchasing just one ticket each week.
Hmmmm....Dawkins theory of intelligent design is just as bad too.... more coming.
2006-12-23 15:36:19 · 31 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Given a few billion years, it would happen.
2006-12-23 15:42:01 · answer #1 · answered by Incoherent Fool 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you have an infinite amount of time (the universe's lifespan) and an infinite amount of chances eventually you will form life. That's how the universe was created.
What made the spark the first got life going? We don't know yet but in the past few hundred years we've made a lot of progress in finding out about the secrets of the universe. Humans used to believe the earth was on the back of a stack of giant turtles at one point but we know better now.
Now if the religious supremacists would stop slowing down scientific progress maybe we could find some answers and solve some problems that have plagued humanity for so long. No need to make up stories of ghost and supervillains to explain how we got here. With enough work and intelligence we will find out on our own.
2006-12-23 15:44:59 · answer #2 · answered by Bleaarg 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
close up close up close up, no longer everybody will have faith what you have faith, recover from your self, you think of that's extra possibly that there is a huge guy up there interior the clouds with a protracted white beard, keepin music of the 6-7 billion people of the international, the place replaced into he 7000 years in the past, whilst the mesopotamians have been around? everybody interior the international is at the back of some conspiracy i think, the dinosaur bones, and all- there replaced into no christianity then, that's no longer approximately spontaneous era, we weren't born into this international with awareness, so supply scientists time to discover new theories, as for the bible, it is going to consistently be the bible, it does not have solutions for each little thing, new issues are chanced on, yet basically reason it aint interior the bible do no longer advise it aint authentic, i come across it unbelieveable that persons have faith each and each be conscious from the bible, that's basically a e book, it wasn't written by utilising god, how ignorant are you?!!!!!
2016-10-05 23:17:13 · answer #3 · answered by laseter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which sadly still doesn't answer what a complex, obviously organic, intelligent god developed from. the difference between the two, (god and us) is we know we are real and yet still god is a topic many are highly skeptical. So i guess that means there is a 100,000,000,000 times itself 10 times chance god is real, and it is a proven scientific fact that we are real so where does that leave us? It leaves us with the conclusion, that given the almost eternal condition of existance to human perception, such an event would almost undoubtedly occur to create us. Not so sure about the ultimately complex god that exists outside logic though.
Sorry, can't help myself:
Owned.
2006-12-23 15:39:26 · answer #4 · answered by Poo 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Here David. All the speculation about odds and probability means exactly nothing until somebody figures out a way to test the idea out. This blows all those odds all to hell. Better yet it is not a miracle, anybody who wants to can repeat it whenever they want. Add a simple poly-lipid bubble and hey, presto, living Archeaobacter. Either your people don't know very much or they are being dishonest.
Here is the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment
ps. those experiments are over 50 years old. I guess it is hard to keep up with modern tech for the religious.
2006-12-23 15:53:23 · answer #5 · answered by Barabas 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
If you're using that as an argument against evolution, there is one problem - Evolutionary theory has never called for a bacterium to assemble in that manner. You shamefully post a premise knowing that uneducated people will ASSUME it is a valid premise. Your statement, while possibly true, is absolutely meaningless. What's your theory? - that a supernatural being with magical powers popped into existence and then creating the bacterium? Please save yourself future embarrassment by arguing against what evolutionary theory actually states, not what you, in your closed minded ignorance, WISHED it stated
2006-12-23 16:07:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The difference between 'living' and 'non-living' molecules is not very clear, but it is almost certainly just a bio-chemical change
driven by known and knowable (although currently uncertain) processes.
Given the earth's environment and the abundance of necessary ingredients for life, it would be a greater mystery if life DID NOT develop on earth.
Such probability games as you reference may be fun, but they really are no more than guesses with numbers attached. I notice that you did not provide confidence limits on your estimate, and assume that neither did its author since it is non-parametric - you don't know or control all the significant variables that define the equation.
2006-12-23 15:53:29 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Evolution happens. there still finding new species in the rain forests and just recently found a new type of catfish with suction cups on its belly. over billions of years anything can happen. look at all the dinosaur fossils we have. if we all had a time machine we can prove the theory. but until then there is more evidence of evolution then adam and eve being around. Not trying to be a **** by saying that but its true.
2006-12-23 15:50:11 · answer #8 · answered by MikeM2.5 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
grim jack said it for me. The odds are 1.
As and aside, what are the odds of a super-intelligent being magically appearing out of nowhere, magically creating things out of nothing but having to take 6 days over it (he spent the same time creating every single of the billion billions of other galaxies, stars and planets as he did creating ours apparently). The magically creating people out of dirt. Then on top of that he placed thousands of separate and unrelated pieces of evidence to point to the fact that we are milllions of years old and have evolved from lower lifeforms (presumably to test our faith). What are the odds of that?
2006-12-23 23:13:26 · answer #9 · answered by Om 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Then to make it even more bewildering. If the universe is infinite (never ending), then there are an infinite number of possible life forms in the universe.
If you say the universe is not infinite, then what is on the other side of the end of the universe? Pretty amazing, and yes, infinite is much much greater than any number you can imagine even 10 to the power of 100,000,000,000,000,000............
2006-12-23 15:42:00 · answer #10 · answered by Sand 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
who said the fist thing assembled was a bacteria?? do you know how complex a bacteria is? the organic molecules under very specific and extreme conditions allowed the formation of amino acids the building blocks of DNA, and that has been replicated in labs and proven to be possible. no one said bacteria pop from no where whenever there's a bunch of organic molecules. there are many steps before that.
2006-12-23 15:41:28 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋