Stephen C. Meyer, in his book "Signature In The Cell" states that for even ONE SIMPLE protein to self assemble by accident,.. say, one containing around 350 amino acids (whereas as a more complex one can have 1500!) outweighs the probabilistic resources of the entire universe. This means that if every slime pool on every planet in the universe was doing its best to churn out ONE SIMPLE protein the universe would grow old, cold and die before it ever happened.
Yes great book by Meyer. Will do a post on it. Full of detail. And that is just 1 protein! Each cell has 6 feet of DNA. DNA and RNA must be produced against a design. So where in the soupy pond would all this happen and how? Bacteria flagellum are basically rotary engines. Impossible to self-generate. And as you say, there is not enough time in the billions-trillions-soon-brazilians of years for any of this to happen.....
Yes Lewontin's Chicken and Egg problem. In fact to make proteins, you need to first have proteins, and the process to create a protein is from ribosomes, in essence a manufacturing process built on a design....as Michael Behe states 'irreducible complexity'. In fact it is unfathomable.
Stephen C. Meyer, in his book "Signature In The Cell" states that for even ONE SIMPLE protein to self assemble by accident,.. say, one containing around 350 amino acids (whereas as a more complex one can have 1500!) outweighs the probabilistic resources of the entire universe. This means that if every slime pool on every planet in the universe was doing its best to churn out ONE SIMPLE protein the universe would grow old, cold and die before it ever happened.
Yes great book by Meyer. Will do a post on it. Full of detail. And that is just 1 protein! Each cell has 6 feet of DNA. DNA and RNA must be produced against a design. So where in the soupy pond would all this happen and how? Bacteria flagellum are basically rotary engines. Impossible to self-generate. And as you say, there is not enough time in the billions-trillions-soon-brazilians of years for any of this to happen.....
This could've been from the same book, not sure: DNA requires 75 pre-existing proteins to assemble...but...all proteins are made by DNA.
Yes Lewontin's Chicken and Egg problem. In fact to make proteins, you need to first have proteins, and the process to create a protein is from ribosomes, in essence a manufacturing process built on a design....as Michael Behe states 'irreducible complexity'. In fact it is unfathomable.
"Irreducible complexity". Now there's a term I haven't heard in years.