"Life finds a way."
Posted on 01/11/2009 2:16:04 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
One of life's greatest mysteries is how it began. Scientists have pinned it down to roughly this:
Some chemical reactions occurred about 4 billion years ago — perhaps in a primordial tidal soup or maybe with help of volcanoes or possibly at the bottom of the sea or between the mica sheets — to create biology.
Now scientists have created something in the lab that is tantalizingly close to what might have happened. It's not life, they stress, but it certainly gives the science community a whole new data set to chew on.
The researchers, at the Scripps Research Institute, created molecules that self-replicate and even evolve and compete to win or lose. If that sounds exactly like life, read on to learn the controversial and thin distinction.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
That "consciousness" might well be in charge of the "evolution" of its own container.
I don’t know how you calculate those odds but it is also possible that consciousness doesn’t require any physical “container” to exist. Perhaps it just takes advantage of them as you already suggested.
Hype and hope in equal measure.
In fact many of them have numerous gas giants near their central stars. Just a matter of time until some sort of solar wind blows the gas away, which will also expand the orbits of the residual rocky cores, and something might pop up close enough to visit us someday.
One current view is that "we exist" because our universe is built/designed/screwed around with such that "we can exist".
If so, the odds are 100% certain that consciousness probably starts at the point where the little teeny tiny computer gizmos in/on Dna TURN ON.
Or at least at the moment nothing else is on the horizon.
Once you get consciousnes down at the DNA level all the supposition about evolution becomes so much dross and drek.
“If so” and “100% certainty” are nearly polar opposites in the conceptual realm.
Then think of it as kind of “open ended” ~ an infinite cornucopia bounded on one end, but we don’t know which one!
I think of it more like an “unanswered question.” Possibly an unanswerable question.
How do you know? If the processes themselves are observed in nature then they are simulating the interaction.
And it still shows that intelligence is required to generate the conditions.
The fact that something is unknown or not yet known in no way leads to a conclusion of intelligence. It just means it is as yet unknown.
No offense, but that is one of the broadest non sequiturs I have read in quite some time.
Now, the next challenge: create, from nothing, all those ingredients used in the "soup".
"Life finds a way."
Yes, it should have. God put the genetic code in place for the exact purpose of preventing Satan from causing evolution.
Do you ever post anything that isn't childish?
Information codes do not just sort of happen. The whole thing is basically obvious at this point, just a question of what people WANT to believe. Evoloserism is about lifestyles, not about science.
FD, Its too bad that ‘non-sequitur’ was already taken as a screen handle, cuz it would have fit you to a T.
Every thing that you post has that “if you had read it before you hit post, you never would have sent it” flavor.
My logic comes to proper conclusions. The fact you don't agree with them is pretty irrelevant.
Lets see if you can do this without insulting. So far, you are 0/1.
The theory of evolution is about science because it follows the scientific method.
Creationists and their critiques of evolution have yet to produce any scientific evidence to counter the theory. All they have is religious apologetics.
And Ted, your nasty little slur does not even come close to being evidence. I presume you posted it because that's all you've got.
Do you mean now, or a week from now, after they tear it down to make room for an intergalactic bypass?
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