The more in-depth I've studied biological science, the more ridiculous it seems that amino acid arrangement (for proteins etc.), cellular machinery (replication factors etc.), and other biological mechanisms could have evolved from a primordial soup. You can either greatly appreciate that infinite trials and errors have brought us here by evolution or wonder if something else occurred (not necessarily gods in the human sense, but could possibly be a lifeless physical force, scientifically advanced life forces, etc.)
2007-06-09 04:55:00 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
I disagree with your first sentence, but agree with your second.
There is nothing "ridiculous" about the idea that intricate machinery can come about through chance PLUS natural selection.
But yes one can either greatly appreciate the power of infinite trial-and-error, or you can wonder if something else is at work. As for the "lifeless physical force", that could be natural selection. But like any of the forces in nature, we always wonder if that force can be explained in terms of an even more fundamental one that explains other forces as well (such as the random forces that produced the first life-forms, which was necessary to get things to the point where natural selection could take over).
Interesting thoughts.
2007-06-09 05:08:44 · answer #1 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"could possibly be a lifeless physical force, scientifically advanced life forms, etc."
The trouble with this idea is then you just take one more step back and have to ask where did this force or form come from?
I am coming to some of this late in life and can only understand books written for lay people, but I personally find the way all of these amino acids and proteins and genes, etc., work to be fascinating. Much more so than "an advanced life form did it". The opposite conclusion you have reached apparently!
2007-06-09 08:16:42 · answer #2 · answered by Joan H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Given an infinite amount of time anything is possible. It could just as easily be a bunch of highly evolved tapirs sitting here on Yahoo answers questioning the nature of existence instead of some hairless monkeys. So it's really not THAT ridiculous is it?
2007-06-09 05:06:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
We aren't really capable of visualizing or even understanding how long of a time 200 million years is. Or a billion years.
So much trial and error has happened, and we are only seeing a speck of time, and seeing only that tiny portion of successful traits.
Also, in any trial and error, sometimes success is reached on the 1000th try, sometimes on the first try.
2007-06-09 05:11:26 · answer #4 · answered by mikecraig11 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bhor said that the universe is not just stranger than
we imagine but stranger than we can imagine!
2007-06-09 05:08:23 · answer #5 · answered by jump'n joe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋