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The Odds of Evolution Are Zero
Townhall.com ^ | JUne 15. 2017 | Jerry Newcombe

Posted on 06/15/2017 12:50:19 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA; ifinnegan

>>When there was just one life form, there were no ‘species’ of life

Speciation includes the ability to identify and procreate with similar life forms.

RNA Molecules which were not able to procreate with one another would still be molecular life forms - but different molecular species.


121 posted on 06/15/2017 4:04:32 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: HLPhat

” - E being quantified state.”

Are you sure? ;-)

Obviously you are proposing a physics “trick” test question. I did find a couple of older papers in my collection relating to E and infinity. I am not going to take the time to dig out the formulas, descriptions etc. To nice a day outside and I have to go meet my wife. BUT in general I think Einie missed(a bit) it on E and infinity. I think it was Jim Carter that wrote some stuff on the question. Some day I do hope we can delve into this further.

Mean while go enjoy 12 Monkees on SyFy. It is a hoot.


122 posted on 06/15/2017 4:04:36 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: mad_as_he$$

>>Are you sure? ;-)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Eigenstate&t=hz&ia=definition

Yep.

What happens to the relative rate of T as E increases in a system?


123 posted on 06/15/2017 4:08:41 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: mad_as_he$$

>>Obviously you are proposing a physics “trick” test question.

Nope. No tricks or “papers” required. Just a simple statement that indicates a basic conceptual understanding...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_paradox

>>I am not going to take the time to dig out the formulas, descriptions etc.

Yeah. You’re full of manure.

My question isn’t a trick - it just requires the ability to articulate a basic understanding of Time in the context of Special Relatively which, despite your vociferously pretentious and dramatic performance, you demonstrably lack.

You and your 12 fictitious monkeys have a nice day!


124 posted on 06/15/2017 4:24:28 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: jonno

If the allowable time is infinity less one second and there are 800 trillion consecutive processes required for evolution to work and all but 30 occur with absolute certainty the probability evolution is responsible for life is just over 4%, given the remaining 30 have a 90% probability. Of course, no natural process in an open system occurs with 100% certainty. These folks need more dimensions than time and space. Looks like they better go back to beating chicken entrails on a rock to summon their god.


125 posted on 06/15/2017 4:34:32 PM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: The Sons of Liberty

More along the lines of inbreeding and no significant opposition. Such conditions breed stupidity.


126 posted on 06/15/2017 4:40:03 PM PDT by Morpheus2009
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To: mad_as_he$$

P.S.

Plagiarists FAIL.

https://www.google.com/#q=%22Time+arises+from+the+phenomenon+of+Quantum+Entanglement,+and+its+fundamental+job+is+to+oversee+that+no+event+bypasses+the+2nd+law+of+thermodynamics%22


127 posted on 06/15/2017 4:40:14 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Retain Mike

>>If the allowable time is infinity less one second

All seconds are equal, are they?


128 posted on 06/15/2017 4:45:17 PM PDT by HLPhat (It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
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To: Kaslin

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129 posted on 06/15/2017 4:45:18 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (Truth, in a time of universal deceit, is courage)
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To: HLPhat

“Speciation includes the ability to identify and procreate with similar life forms.”

So organisms that reproduce asexually aren’t part of a species! (That’s a rhetorical question pointing out your ignorance).

“RNA Molecules which were not able to procreate with one another would still be molecular life forms - but different molecular species.”

Why do you think RNA molecules can’t “procreate with one other”?

What does species mean?


130 posted on 06/15/2017 4:50:45 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: HLPhat

“RNA Molecules which were not able to procreate with one another would still be molecular life forms - but different molecular species.”

I want to not forget to say, yes.

And if they reproduce, they are life.


131 posted on 06/15/2017 4:59:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: JimSEA
The calculation of odds assumes the creation of life in its present form. The first life would have been very much simpler. Further, Prior to life, biochemistry produces complex products, and the products themselves interact in complex ways. For example, complex organic molecules are observed to form in the conditions that exist in space, and it is possible that they played a role in the formation of the first life.

Those complex products interacting in complex ways are not alive - to quote Bones from Star Trek, "They're dead Jim". And it's not as simple as some chemicals interacting here on earth or in space.

Look, we know DNA has the following

1. Functional Information
2. Encoder
3. Error Correction
4. Decoder

This is a big problem for a purely naturalistic explanation for how life arose. You have information in a symbolic representation and a reading frame code. But beyond this, a formalization of semantic closure would need to be in place prior to the first cell. This cannot just happen by accident.

132 posted on 06/15/2017 5:06:23 PM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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To: free_life

A reasonable answer to those questions would be. “I don’t know”. I’m always surprised how many people find that answer both threatening and unsatisfactory.


133 posted on 06/15/2017 5:09:44 PM PDT by Natufian (t)
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To: butlerweave

Francis Crick, co-discover of DNA realized how impossible it was that it just happened by chance. There HAD to be a designer. Of course he couldn’t attribute it to God, so he uses the idea of “pansperma” - where aliens, realizing that their planet was doomed, put their DNA on spaceships and sent them out, hoping they would reach a suitable planet.


134 posted on 06/15/2017 5:10:52 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: ConservativeWarrior

“Where did carbon come from? Who created it?”

Like the one about the scientist declaring to God that he too can create life, so he challenges God to a race.

God picks up a clump of dirt.
The scientist picks up a clump of dirt.
God looks over and says “Hey - get your own dirt!”


135 posted on 06/15/2017 5:14:57 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts FDR's New Deal = obama)
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To: free_life

Nice. I’ve asked, if all matter was once contained within a single point, what happened to cause the stable point to become unstable? No new matter. No forces yet created. What impelled the Big Bang?


136 posted on 06/15/2017 5:32:45 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze (If a border fence isn't effective, why is there a border fence around the White House?)
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To: afsnco

Ive been saying that also...its odd that they call on time and chance as agents....but is there really chance or is it all predetermined.?...and what really is time...?.its the non old school religionists who just have different gods(i.e. overriding powers)all the while saying they are not religious...


137 posted on 06/15/2017 5:41:29 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: free_life

The first bit of energy or matter had to be created by a eternal and intelligent Creator.

the devil’s advocate would say ‘does that not apply to the
Creator as well...’


138 posted on 06/15/2017 5:50:12 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: Kaslin

Everything around right now, the computer, desk, chair....they are made of atoms of different types. These atoms are infinitely small as I learned in engineering school, however the atoms themselves are largely empty space. Everything around you is made of teeny tiny things that themselves are almost entirely empty of matter. These colliders, CERN and such are finding yet tiny-et particles make up the empty space which is what little exists in the largely empty atoms. Crazy right and there is no reason to expect this all won’t get ever more confounding.

There was once a people that built a high tower to challenge the preeminence of God, God responded by confusing their language.

=> Science on the sub-atomic level or greater universe level is something we will never fully understand, because the solutions become ever more inexplicable -like a confused language.

That’s my theory of the universe from first principles.


139 posted on 06/15/2017 6:12:44 PM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Kaslin
Let me just add this nugget from the latest in quantum physics and theoretical physics: The concepts of 'time' being linear or cause always preceding effect have been shown to be delusion entirely dependent upon an observer creating such as a reality by the very act of observing such. As Einstein pointed out there exists a time space dimension, not an independent dimension of time. As physics points out, all space time, past present, and future exists now.

As such: evolution; primarily, natural selection over time, is premised upon a delusional concept of linear time coupled with cause always preceding effect.

Given faith in an all powerful God; why not an all powerful God that created Mankind, all that we perceive preceded Mankind, and all that we perceive will follow Mankind ALL at the same time, ALL according to plan, with much we will never understand let alone possess the ability to comprehend?

140 posted on 06/15/2017 6:16:55 PM PDT by DBeers (The concept of peace in Islam requires not co-existence but submission.)
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