Some scientists believe that lightning struck a primordial soup in ammonia-rich oceans, producing the complex molecules that formed the precursors to life. Others believe that chemical reactions at deep-sea hydrothermal vents gave rise to cell membranes and simple cellular pumps.
In other words, the massively sophisticated molecular machinery of single-cell organisms simply arose spontaneously as a fully functional unit after bombarding mud puddles with lightening for a few hundred million years.
If you believe that, then you should have no problem at all with believing that a Panasonic CF-53 laptop computer with Windows 7 would arise spontaneously if we filled a beaker full of the elemental powders from which it is formed, put some sea water in, and then bombarded the laptop soup in the beaker with lightening for a few hundred million years.
Eventually, we may obtain only a single integrated circuit chip forming in the beaker, but the chip should eventually EVOLVE all by itself into the laptop (with operating system) after being bombarded by cosmic rays for a long time after that.
If organic life formed by accident in a similar scenario, then certainly there should be no problem with obtaining the laptop and operating system in a like fashion, because after all, the laptop and OS are a few thousand trillion times simpler than, say, the Homo Sapiens species. In fact, we should obtain the laptop and OS much much faster because they are so much simpler.
Right?
(BTW, someone recently claimed the fallacy in my logic was that there were possibly billions of mud puddles, not just one, so I was forced to amend my thought experiment to include, not one, but billions of beakers. There. Fixed it.)
Many years ago the scientist that basically wrote the definitive book on “Chemical, Origins of Life”, I forget his name, trashed his own theory.
He was an honest scientist that found the flaws in his work and later said “It could not have happened”.
He also, became very upset as many of his peers continued to use his original (flawed work) to promote the idea of Chemical origins of life.
LOL! If you think that’s the problem with your thinking, you are naive.
Right on Bro!
Dang I wished I had written that!
BTTT.
I read something on what were actually ‘primordial seas’. Not puddles, but oceans, and not calm ones at that. The ‘lightning strikes’ experiments were done when the elements were essentially still, but the primordial seas were more likely raging, churning waters where even if you did get that chance reaction, it would likely be dashed to smithereens in a matter of seconds.
I like the way you think.
Unfortunately, I probably will not survive the millions of years necessary to watch that laptop evolve to fruition. But you KNOW that it is bound to happen. *snark* Solid, simple logic pierces the vainest of egos once again.