Do the math. The simplest living organism known contains a variety of about 200 different proteins with an average length of about 200 amino acids. The theoretically simplest living organism requires about 150 different proteins with an average length of about 450.
The smallest molecule that classifies as a protein requires a chain of about 80 amino acids in a very specific order.
Suppose every atom in the universe is not an atom, but is actually an amino acid. And suppose the entire universe has been assembling these amino acids into 80-length chains, a thousand times per second since the beginning of the universe (approx 13,5 billion years ago.)
You will find that the universe is still about a billion, trillion, trillion times too small or too young to have made even this one simplist of all proteins via random process.
Intelligent life a Mathematical certainty? I don't think so? Do the math.
“Do the math.”
Less complicated than the national debt clock, KISS math:
There are a billion planets in this galaxie, and at least one has a habitable planet.
And there are at least a billion galaxies in our universe ... Those are good odds for optimists.
Correction: That average length of that simplest known living organism is not 200, it is 400.
The Drake equation says otherwise. While his focuses less on intelligent life, his calculations conclude that life most certainly exists.
Although Fermi counters with the “why haven’t we found any” argument, the sheer magnitude of space supports my belief.
We’ll likely never know in our lifetimes, but I find it rather challenging to believe that Earth is the only planet in the universe with plentiful life.
Great comment. Try to come around freeper land more often!