This isn’t random self assembling to form patterns or shapes. We are talking self assembly to fulfil a “purpose” such as to form a circulatory system to pump blood to keep an organism alive. Atoms or molecules lack any such awareness. And it’s practically impossible that they would come together randomly to form an intelligent system that fulfilled a purpose. It’s pure fantasy.
>>This isn’t random self assembling to form patterns or shapes. We are talking self assembly to fulfil a “purpose” such as to form a circulatory system to pump blood to keep an organism alive. Atoms or molecules lack any such awareness. And it’s practically impossible that they would come together randomly to form an intelligent system that fulfilled a purpose. It’s pure fantasy.
Nature throws huge numbers at such problems. You don’t need monkeys typing Shakespeare, you just need to get an extra atom or two into a protein over a period of a zillion years in a petri dish of an ocean absorbing megajoules of photon energy from the Sun. Google the term “prion”. They are sub virus protein molecules that can’t even be said to be alive, yet they are responsible for Mad Cow disease. They have a mindless impetus to replicate and parasite off a host, killing the host and itself. Seeing intelligence in blind Nature is a form of anthropomorphization- the projection of human qualities onto aspects of existence that are not human. Pagan tree hugger hippies do that to a nauseating degree.