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1) 200,000 monkeys is considerably fewer than the trillions, nay, quadrillions of single celled organisms doing mutations through out biological history 2) They
by wolfram74 2y ago
1) 200,000 monkeys is considerably fewer than the trillions, nay, quadrillions of single celled organisms doing mutations through out biological history
2) They are not generating random ACTG strings ~3 billion pairs long, they are permuting a few at a time from a working starting point of the first tiny clump of self catalyzing chemicals.
- gjsman-1000 2y ago[flagged]
- drrotmos 2y ago> All of those single celled organisms didn't come from nowhere, overnight. There was, at least at some point, the first single celled organism. Not only the first one, but the first one that was able to reproduce. There could have been millions, billions of single celled organisms incapable of reproduction that died. The odds of just getting one single celled organism, by itself, without the ability to reproduce, is already ludicrous. The general thinking among researchers is that single-celled organisms were preceded by self-replicating and self-catalyzing molecules, like RNA. Abiogenesis is a fascinating area of research.