Definitions (Evolution)

by David Turell , Friday, April 04, 2008, 03:03 (6076 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: "It's exactly the same with the origin of life as George describes it. This requires "the coming together of the appropriate chemical components in a suitable environment, this requires a certain amount of chance..." Let's stop there. It is precisely this "certain amount of chance" that I am referring to. Without the chance combination (an event or series of events, following your step by step scenario, without apparent cause, purpose or design), there would have been no life ... and this is not a minor matter to be skated over. The combination of those chemical factors is something so complex that scientists still haven't figured out how it could possibly happen." - And what is more, of the 20 essential amino acids necessary for the DNA/RNA mechanism which represents our living matter in our evolution, only eight have been found to occur naturally, outside of living matter. And all the amino acids in life must be left-handed, and non-living nature makes them equally left and right.The odds against a chance happening making a very simple living cell are stupendously enormous.