Posted: Jun 23, 2022 12:58 pm
Calilasseia wrote:Correction. Using actual scientific analysis, taking into account the fact that the "machinery" in question is a vast series of chemical reactions, the best explanation is that testable natural processes are responsible, for which we have vast amounts of evidence, as opposed to a cartoon magic man, for which we have zero evidence.
Indeed, life IS chemistry writ large. Millions of chemical reactions are taking place in your body right now, and if some of those reactions STOP, you DIE.
Life is not only based on chemistry and matter, but also on the information. It's software and hardware. Life is driven, directed, constructed, and operated by the instructional assembly and operation-directing information. Or, in ID parlance, complex specified information. Its digital data. Denying this is denying reality and facts.
The problem of information Norbert Weiner - MIT Mathematician - Father of Cybernetics
"Information is information, not matter or energy. No materialism which does not admit this can survive at the present day."
Edward J. Steele Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? August 2018
The transformation of an ensemble of appropriately chosen biological monomers (e.g. amino acids, nucleotides) into a primitive living cell capable of further evolution appears to require overcoming an information hurdle of superastronomical proportions, an event that could not have happened within the time frame of the Earth except, we believe, as a miracle. All laboratory experiments attempting to simulate such an event have so far led to dismal failure. It would thus seem reasonable to go to the biggest available “venue” in relation to space and time. A cosmological origin of life thus appears plausible and overwhelmingly likely to us
https://sci-hub.ren/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2018.03.004
David T.F Dryden How much of protein sequence space has been explored by life on Earth? 15 April 2008
A typical estimate of the size of sequence space is 20^100 (approx. 10^130) for a protein of 100 amino acids in which any of the normally occurring 20 amino acids can be found. This number is indeed gigantic
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/ ... .2008.0085
Bit by Bit: The Darwinian Basis of Life Gerald F. Joyce Published: May 8, 2012
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/a ... io.1001323
Suppose that a polymer (like RNA) that is assembled into four chains of 40 subunits (quaternary heteropolymer) . Then there would be 10^24 possible compositions. To represent all of these compositions at least once, and thus to establish a certainty that this simple ribozyme could have materialized, requires 27 kg of RNA chains, which classifies spontaneous emergence as a highly implausible event.
KatarzynaAdamala OPEN QUESTIONS IN ORIGIN OF LIFE: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES ON THE ORIGIN OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND PROTEINS WITH SPECIFIC AND FUNCTIONAL SEQUENCES BY A CHEMICAL SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY APPROACH February 2014
There is a conceptual problem, namely the emergence of specific sequences among a vast array of possible ones, the huge “sequence space”, leading to the question “why these macromolecules, and not the others?” One of the main open questions in the field of the origin of life is the biogenesis of proteins and nucleic acids as ordered sequences of monomeric residues, possibly in many identical copies. The first important consideration is that functional proteins and nucleic acids are chemically speaking copolymers, i.e., polymer formed by several different monomeric units, ordered in a very specific way.