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Friday, March 8, 2013

Random Chance

Although the idea of life forming by random chance isn't taken seriously right now among scientists, the idea is still very much alive at the popular level.

The problems with that theory is like as throwing Scrabble letters onto the floor and forming a simple book. Or imagine closing your eyes and picking Scrabble letters out of a bag. Are you going to produce Hamlet in anything like te time of the known universe? Even a simple protein molecule is so rich in information that the entire history of the universe since the Big Bang wouldn't give you the time you would need to generate that molecule by chance.

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