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Organic chemistry is a incomplete description. The entire field of biochemistry is an incomplete description. Until we can create life from nothing in a petri d
by crimsonalucard 12y ago
Organic chemistry is a incomplete description. The entire field of biochemistry is an incomplete description. Until we can create life from nothing in a petri dish we don't know whether it is an inevitable outcome or a lucky one.
You can argue that the entire earth is a petri dish for a boeing 747. We have all the necessary materials, all we need is a hurricane to throw all the materials together in the right configuration and boom! 747. With billions of planets in the universe it's bound to happen on another one! It's inevitable.
Perhaps this would be more clear: We don't have Enough context to talk about the probability of life on other planets. Perhaps the chemical reaction needed to create life was mind boggling complex, billions of steps needed to happen in the exact order, under conditions that are equally exacting . Or maybe it's devastatingly simple. We just don't know...
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoOrganic chemistry is a self-assembling kit. Completely unlike the disingenuous jet argument.
- crimsonalucard 12y agoLets take a look at the jet example from another perspective. The jet is self assembled by proxy of humans being self-assembled. A 747 is the result of a trillion step chemical reaction that stretches across the history of life on earth itself. The chances of this reaction self-assembling on another planet under the same conditions and in the same manner are impossibly low. What we don't know is whether or not the chemical reactions forming the first life form on earth happened in the same improbable way. Did it happen over eons? did it require a billion steps? I dunno. Nobody knows. It is not unrealistic to say that the chemical reactions necessary to form life are so rare that earth is the only planet in the universe with life.