Posted on 09/25/2018 12:02:04 PM PDT by LibWhacker
As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moores law which states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The regression suggests that if life takes 10 billion years to evolve to the level of complexity associated with homo sapiens, then we may be among the first, if not the first, intelligent civilization in the Milky Way, negating Drakes Equation.
Our Solar Nebula formed from the remnants of an earlier star, suggesting that life from this period might be preserved in the original gas, dust and ice clouds. Life on Earth may be a continuation of a process that began many billions of years before the formation of our Solar System.
In a 2015 study, geneticists, Alexei Sharov at the National Institute on Ageing in Baltimore and Richard Gordon at the Gulf Specimen Marine Laboratory in Florida, extrapolated this trend backwards and found that by the measure of Moores Law, life is older than the Earth itself.
The team takes Moores Law back to zero complexity and the origin of life, by measuring the complexity of life and the rate at which it has increased from prokaryotes to eukaryotes to more complex creatures such as worms, fish, amphibians and eventually mammals. The result is an exponential increase identical to that behind Moores Law with the doubling time, however, expanding to 376 million years rather than two years.
The application of Linear regression of genetic complexity on a log scale extrapolated back to just one base pair suggests the time of the origin of life 9.7 billion years ago. This cosmic time scale for the evolution of life has important consequences: life took ca. 5 billion years to reach the complexity of bacteria; the environments in which life originated and evolved to the prokaryote stage may have been quite different from those envisaged on Earth.
The graph above shows the complexity of organisms, as measured by the length of functional non-redundant DNA per genome counted by nucleotide base pairs (bp), increases linearly with time (Sharov, 2012). Time is counted backwards in billions of years before the present (time 0).
Additionally they suggest that the evolution of advanced organisms has accelerated via development of additional information-processing systems: epigenetic memory, primitive mind, multicellular brain, language, books, computers, and Internet. As a result the doubling time of complexity has reached about every 20 years.
"Nothing from nothing leaves nothing." - Billy Preston
We were created by aliens. I saw it on a Star Trek The Next Generation episode.
Makes sense. Many top scientists believe DNA precedes the Earth. We know the planet is showered with virus-like entities, from space.
Not linear. The ordinate of the graph is log. Nature favors logarithmic growth functions.
This explains why most humans are inbred morons.
I hear when you shoot buckshot into a pack of dogs, you can tell which one you hit by the one that yelps.
Bunny, pancake...
some interesting math.
Is there a mathematician in the house?
Do you know any mathematicians who might be able to evaluate this article?
(It does sound interesting. But I’m not sure I know how to evaluate it.)
Hehe, I have a bachelor’s in math and a master’s in stats. However, I hesitate to call myself a mathematician or a statistician or a probabilist or anything like that. In grad school, you quickly learn those titles are reserved for PhDs. But... I might be able to answer your question.
Thanks ckilmer. Panspermia topic, but will also be a GGG and Catastrophism topic. :^)
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Darwin's Black Box:
The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution
by Michael J. Behe
hardcover
Molecular Machines webpage (thanks Val)
Thanks LibWhacker.
Corel? I thought it was Borland.
The Hebrew word for “day” in Genesis can also refer to a period of time, like “The days of the dinosaurs”. I’m a Creationist as well, but believe that the Creation story is more of a “why” story than a “how” story. And of course they (and us still today) were/are limited in their understanding of what was revealed to them.
There can be no certainty.
Uncertainty is reality
Today we lhave Office 365 Word that is near universal
Still in Office 2010 where I am.
I use LibreOffice at home.
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