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That’s my point. Organic chemistry is not like your construction materials (or silicon computers). The organic chem functionality for nucleotides to begin organ
by oneoff786 4y ago
That’s my point. Organic chemistry is not like your construction materials (or silicon computers). The organic chem functionality for nucleotides to begin organizing into repeating patterns exists. We know it does. And while we might not know the exact reactions that it took, they are highly likely to exist, and were arrived upon randomly.
If you arrange your biological soup a large number of times randomly, you will eventually land on a pattern that causes other nucleotides to arrange in a similar or improved pattern around it.
Not too dissimilar from thinking about the creation of specific atoms through various astronomical processes.
Even if you need to believe in god for some reason, it’s not incompatible with god defining the organic chemical reactions that enabled life to form via random interactions of nucleotides until they happened to land on god’s lucky number
- rmbyrro 4y agoAnd why is it that they can combine?
- oneoff786 4y agoBecause that’s how organic chemistry works.
- rmbyrro 4y agoAnd do you think randomness is a good explanation for how organic chemistry works? When you see it at work, does it even look random?
- adgjlsfhk1 4y agoit's hard to make a non-trivial ruleset that isn't Turing complete. it's similarly hard to have a bunch of chemistry while precluding life forming.