Different in degree or kind: EVOLUTION (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, January 12, 2015, 21:51 (3391 days ago) @ George Jelliss

"only an intellect can create information"?
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> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2014/12/life-and-information/
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> George: Not so according to this blog.-But the article doesn't really say that. It is lots of wishful thinking based on Shannon information theory.:-"However, this insight does not tell us where the first self-replicating piece of information came from. Did it arise spontaneously? Now we find ourselves faced with the question that some have called “The hardest question in science.”"-"So while we can be more confident that spontaneous emergence is a possibility, the likelihood that the early Earth harbored just such environments is impossible to ascertain."-"It turns out that scientists have been able to construct self-replicating molecules (based on RNA enzymes) that encode just 84 bits of information, but even such a seemingly small piece of information is still extremely unlikely to emerge by chance (about one chance in 1024)."-"Unfortunately, while given any particular environment we can estimate what the probability of spontaneous emergence might be, we have very little knowledge about the specifics of these environments on the ancient Earth. So while we can be more confident that spontaneous emergence is a possibility, the likelihood that the early Earth harbored just such environments is impossible to ascertain."-All the debate must start with the issue of where and how did the first information- containing self-replicating molecule come from, and how did a bunch of different molecules get together so that the information contained could plan total organisms. And just because an organic RNAzyme can self-replicated doesn't mean it contains useful information for living organisms.