How can life start from random combinations?
There are (for the most simple lifeform) over 10,000 genes required. This consists of approximately 500,000 base pairs.
It’s statistically impossible that such an event occurred, then the required continued “lucky” mutations continued to populate the tree of life.
In the whole universe, only life is self-organizing and self-propegating. The second law of thermodynamics says all things tend toward disorder (chaos).
Knowledge does not arise from random chance. Why? Because let’s use the classic example of the millions of monkeys typing forever can reproduce the works of shakespeare.
The problem with the theory is that the monkeys don’t KNOW when they have information worth keeping....they continue to press keys! (Like mutations continue to occur).
If you really believe in random chance produces information, just put your computer in a loop to produce the next program you wish.....Thousands of computers working together at 3Ghz (that’s 3 Billion op/sec) could in a matter of hours produce something usable, no?
I think not.
“How can life start from random combinations?”
Not arguing the whole evolution/creation thing on this thread but can it really be considered random combinations or is it causality, i.e. entities acting according to their nature?
All life begins with some random combination of genes.
From "Darwin's Ghost" by Steve Jones, we have ... "About a thousand genes are shared by every organism, however simple or complicated. Although their common ancestor must have lived more than a billion years ago, their shared structure can still be glimpsed. It shows how the grand plan of life has been modified through the course of evolution." ... Pg 284.
And again, from Jones ... "One set of genes is found everywhere. It translates the information coded in the DNA and allows it to make proteins. The job is so essential that such structures changed little over millions of years." Pg 285.
Happy reading.