Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by Schroedingers2c on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:02AM
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Even if the probability for this to succeed is really really small, there's a good chance it will happen when you have billions of years time and idk how many orders of magnitude (10^40? 10^50?) of atoms/molecules constantly interacting.
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Re:Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks
by pfdietz on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:49AM
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No, that's not clear at all. The smallest known system capable of independent existence and Darwinian evolution has billions of atoms. A mere 40 or 50 orders of magnitude is trivial compared to the unlikelihood of this arising by chance.