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To: mvpel

I’m not denying anything that is real, provable, observable science, and that means following the scientific method and being peer reviewed. Do some research on the difficulty of forming carbon, which is essential to all life, from helium. Just that probability alone should discourage anyone from thinking it happened here, let alone the impossible odds of life forming from those carbon compounds and evolving. That’s the point.


34 posted on 10/14/2012 8:08:29 AM PDT by Guido2012
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To: Guido2012
Do some research on the difficulty of forming carbon, which is essential to all life, from helium.

The Triple-Alpha Process

"Ordinarily, the probability of the triple alpha process would be extremely small. However, the beryllium-8 ground state has almost exactly the energy of two alpha particles. In the second step, 8Be + 4He has almost exactly the energy of an excited state of 12C. These resonances greatly increase the probability that an incoming alpha particle will combine with beryllium-8 to form carbon."

35 posted on 10/15/2012 12:27:47 PM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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