Genome complexity (Introduction)

by hyjyljyj , Sunday, December 09, 2012, 13:57 (4369 days ago) @ David Turell

David: "The more complex, the less likely for chance, and the more likely a case for design."-That really is it in a nutshell, isn't it? -The more complex, the greater the number of bizarre coincidences occurring with flawless precision in type, location, magnitude and timing that we are expected to believe in, rather than believing in what's staring us in the face.-If it were only ONE single, giant, heaving coincidence bringing about life on Earth, for example, we MIGHT -- I say MIGHT -- be persuaded that it was just happenstance. When an unimaginable number of them are required just to make a single protein, and then another unimaginable number of them to get to the next level of organization, then another and another, at some point we get to ask, Are you kidding? Like the universe is just dying to create this insane level of order from chaos, against the gradient of entropy? Really? Then I guess I'll dump this box of spaghetti out of a helicopter and watch the noodles all fall to earth and stand vertically atop each other, end to end, stretching up into the sky. If the chance thing is true, then I ought to be able to get that comparatively simple, straightforward result in a ridiculously short time; it's not like I'm looking for the spontaneous generation of the first protein molecule or echidna. So once I stack them perfectly on my first or second try, then I'll go back up on my next flight, dump out another box and watch them spell out God Save the Queen. Because to those fully invested in Holy Random Chance as the Guiding Influence of the universe, there is, by definition, NO chain of events so unlikely that it would take more than 13.5 billion years to happen along.-(Wonder how much fuel I'd burn on repeat flights, as the noodles kept messing up and misspelling it: God Shave the Queen, then God Save the Queer, then Rod Gave Me Beer, then...)