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To: Svartalfiar

Assuming a 1:1 ratio for planets, that’s quite a lot of chances to have some form of life.
***You’re off by about 119,000 orders of magnitude. And that’s being generous with 800 orders of magnitude. The mathematical definition of impossible is 1/10^50. So that’s giving you 16 levels of “impossible”. Having a faith position that life arrives through abiogenesis is deeply embedded with more than 2200 levels of 10^50 impossible.

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/bblovrvw/creation/crea-evol.html

Consider that the smallest theoretical cell is made up of 239 proteins. Further, at least 124 different types of proteins are needed for the cell to become a living thing. But the simplest known self-reproducing organism is the H39 strain of PPLO (mycoplasma) containing 625 proteins with an average of 400 amino acids in each protein.

Yet the probability of the occurrence of the smallest theoretical life is only one chance in 10^119,879 and the years required for it to evolve would be 10^119,841 years or 10119,831 times the assumed age of the earth! The probability of this smallest theoretical cell of 239 proteins evolving without the needed 124 different types of proteins to make up a living cell, i.e., the chance of evolving this “helpless group of non-living molecules” in over 500 billion years is one chance in 10^119,701. Dr. David J. Rodabough, Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri, estimated the more realistic chance that life would spontaneously generate (even on 10^23 planets) as only one chance in 10^2,999,940.


102 posted on 02/08/2013 1:02:18 PM PST by Kevmo ("A person's a person, no matter how small" ~Horton Hears a Who)
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To: Kevmo

Throw in a little chaos theory, and you’d see that those vast numbers can be tamed in a hurry by a few simple organizing physics principles.


113 posted on 02/08/2013 7:01:38 PM PST by ctdonath2 (3% of the population perpetrates >50% of homicides...but gun control advocates blame metal boxes.)
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