Contingent evolution: what pushes it? (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, November 02, 2014, 00:11 (3675 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained


> > David: Remember there are lots of anaerobic single-celled organisms in early life. The lack of oxygen didn't stop life from appearing. But oxygen is needed for a more advanced type of energy system.
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> Tony: Poor choice of wording on my part "existence". Would "spring into greatly increased complexity that did not have the time to actually form according to evolutionary theory" appease both yourself and DHW?-There is not enough time in the life of the univers or even less the life of the Earth for chance to search all of protein-space possibilities to find the proper life-giving molecules that work together for the first cells, much less advance to human beings.