Intelligent design (Introduction)

by Abel , Thursday, October 27, 2011, 22:14 (4776 days ago) @ dhw1

Firstly, I'd like to thank both you and David for the warm welcome. Secondly, I would like to apologize for not being more explicit with my beliefs concerning abiogenesis. What I posted was merely a portion of a much larger discussion that I was having with an ID skeptic and taken out of context it doesn't make a lot of sense.

The kinetics of solution dynamics in matter as we understand it mixes components dissolved within it by an entropic process. Homochiralic crystals of amino acids and ribonucleic acids dropped into solution will dissolve into a racemic mix of enantiomers that makes such a mix not only useless, but in many ways poisonous, to life as we know it. These same withering winds of chemistry, entropy and energy are also actively degrading any organic macromolecules that chance has created. In order to believe the billion monkeys typing on a billion typewriters for a billion years metaphor, one must utterly ignore the billion monkeys (entropy and energy) that have nothing better to do than rip the manuscript to shreds as it's being written. Thus abiogenesis in matter as we understand it is not highly improbable, it is impossible.

For abiogenesis to occur the entropy induced by simple kinetics would have to minimal (but not zero). Then racemic mixtures of amino acids and ribonucleic acids would naturally segregate into liquid and gaseous "crystals" of homochiralic compounds. These liquid and gaseous "crystals" would only mix and interact with other homochiralic pools of these life blocks at their interface.

Now we have the typewriter we need, the letter pool we need, and the monkeys that we need to type without all the monkeys ripping the first chapter of the book of life to shreds. Now abiogenesis is not only possible, but inevitable given enough matter, time and energy. Life in this type of matter would be easy living. Without a hurricane of entropy tearing away at all your structures, there would be much less need to harness materials and energy to repair those structures. Multicellular organisms made of this kind of matter would not necessarily even require aerobic respiration to supply their energetic needs.

Though the first chapter of the book of Life only coded for a simple cell (or something like one), that cell through a process of evolution became the first race. In my post I suggested this race was simple, that was not my intent, just flawed writing. I meant to say this first cell was simple. The first race is complex and advanced.

I must go now. I will be back later to continue this thread.