Refuting Vic Stenger: additional thought (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 05, 2014, 15:13 (3708 days ago) @ David Turell

The other approach to start of life has been a backward look at how simple an organism can be called true life. The most simple organisms on Earth, truly independent living organisms are highly complex. Even viruses which are dependent upon the fully living for their survival are highly complex. It appears first life must have been complex, requirung many disparate parts coordinating together. One example: waste products must be dispelled by creating little globules which are extruded. That garbage came from ingesting nutrients to disgest and create energy which life requires. Even parts of a single-celled organism recycle. And then there is the problem of the creation of a mechanism for splitting into two daughter organisms, the only way to reproduce. If you think about it, the vestiges of the first bacterium ever on Earth are still here, because of the method of reproduction.-It takes a huge amount of faith to make George's statement, which implies abiogenesis happened by chance. That is dhw's point. Chance is a supreme issue even if we have well-undertood probability formulas in math.