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Given the ever growing discoveries and complexity of single cell life, it is evermore unlikely that life randomly “sprung” into being. The primordial soup argu
by owlstuffing 3y ago
Given the ever growing discoveries and complexity of single cell life, it is evermore unlikely that life randomly “sprung” into being.
The primordial soup argument is akin to lightening striking a wheat field and spontaneously producing a birthday cake complete with icing, candles, and balloons.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoTo go from nothing to that level of complexity in one stroke seems impossible. But nobody thinks that single celled organisms sprang into existence like that. Most theories postulate simpler replicating chemical reactions, maybe around hydrothermal vents or pools, possibly forming in mineral structures and cavities. Later on membranes may have formed, and so on. Many steps, not one.
- jononomo 3y agoEveryone has a theory just like everyone has an opinion. Some people think Trump won the 2020 election. Other people think life came from crystals. Whatever, man. No one has a clue how life emerged.
- owlstuffing 3y agoA series of unlikely but dependent events is no more likely. This is pure speculation, not science.
- MattPalmer1086 3y agoI would disagree that a series of simpler steps is just as unlikely as life emerging fully formed. It is of course speculation as we just don't know. But if you agree that life occured naturally without supernatural intervention (or aliens, but that just pushes the speculation to how the aliens occurred), then there must be such a set of steps.
- cafeinux 3y agoYet, if the primordial soup is indeed what happened, it created a birthday cake complete with icing, candles and balloons, through the creation of humans. The primordial doesn't speculate that life appeared from one day to another, it speculates a long and slow process, just as the refinery of wheat into flour then a pastry (along with other ingredients) is a long and slow process (faster than the creation of life, but still).