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Granny Magda
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Message 286 of 415 (513496)
06-29-2009 7:46 AM
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06-29-2009 7:41 AM


Interactions
Aah Peg,
You're ignoring the key word. Take another look.
Dr Adequate writes:
Because it is impossible to miraculously breath life into non-living things, since the necessary condition for life is a set of chemical interactions, not miracle breath.
Interactions, yes? The chemicals may or may not be present (and I have a strong feeling that many chemicals start to break down immediately after death), but the processes by which they interact are no longer functioning.
Is that really so hard to grasp?
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Peg
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Message 287 of 415 (513553)
06-29-2009 9:41 PM
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06-29-2009 7:46 AM


Re: Interactions
grannymagda writes:
Interactions, yes? The chemicals may or may not be present (and I have a strong feeling that many chemicals start to break down immediately after death), but the processes by which they interact are no longer functioning.
Is that really so hard to grasp?
its not hard to grasp, i completely agree which is why it is impossible that the chemicals can miraculously 'react' to bring something to life
life is obviously much more complicated then a chance chemical reaction...to believe otherwise is to believe contrary to observable facts such as that which you have stated here.
Abiogenesis is impossible.

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Message 288 of 415 (513554)
06-29-2009 9:45 PM
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06-29-2009 9:41 PM


Re: Interactions
its not hard to grasp, i completely agree which is why it is impossible that the chemicals can miraculously 'react' to bring something to life
life is obviously much more complicated then a chance chemical reaction...to believe otherwise is to believe contrary to observable facts such as that which you have stated here.
Abiogenesis is impossible.
Argument from personal incredulity. Simply because you cannot see how it may be possible does not make it impossible.
To disprove abiogenesis as a possibility, you must provide a mechanism that prevents nonliving chemicals from arranging themselves into a living thing, or you must explore every single possible chemical pathway and eliminate all of them as routes to life.
You have done neither. Abiogenesis remains an unproven possibility, with ongoing research that has so far yielded promising results.

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bluescat48
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Message 289 of 415 (513558)
06-29-2009 11:20 PM
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06-29-2009 9:41 PM


Re: Interactions
life is obviously much more complicated then a chance chemical reaction
Except it is not a chance chemical reaction. Most chemical substances only combine in a small number of ways.

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RevCrossHugger
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Message 290 of 415 (513795)
07-01-2009 5:05 PM


Peg writes:
Abiogenesis is impossible.
Rahvin writes:
Argument from personal incredulity. Simply because you cannot see how it may be possible does not make it impossible.
If he would of said its nearly impossible it would not be a invalid argument or fallacy. Abiogenesis is a rather silly concept it seems similar to spontaneous generation.I think in the distant past while in school I did read that it was somehow connected to sg. Wonderful. GIDdidit seems just as credible. GID=God the intelligent designer.
; {>
ps I have my anti god word filtering software software on, it helps me stay calm, but some replies are almost all blanks... hee hee....
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Perdition
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Message 291 of 415 (513797)
07-01-2009 5:11 PM
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07-01-2009 5:05 PM


If he would of said its nearly impossible it would not be a invalid argument or fallacy.
It is if he doesn't have any numbers to back it up. Considering the amount of organic material found in space, the odds of a chemical reaction taking place that leads to a self-replicating molecule, given a long enough time and large enough area, makes the probability more and more likely. It may even be inevitable.

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Message 292 of 415 (513799)
07-01-2009 5:14 PM
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07-01-2009 5:11 PM


It is if he doesn't have any numbers to back it up. Considering the amount of organic material found in space, the odds of a chemical reaction taking place that leads to a self-replicating molecule, given a long enough time and large enough area, makes the probability more and more likely. It may even be inevitable
I agree, (that life would happen given enough time) however time is limited. Very limited of one accepts the Big Bang model as correct. One universe one try, around 13b to 15b years...hmmmm'...
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CosmicChimp
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Message 293 of 415 (513800)
07-01-2009 5:19 PM
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07-01-2009 5:05 PM


Automatic
I tend to adhere to the idea that abiogenesis is automatic. That is to say it happens automatically almost without exception, given the prerequisite conditions. I consider people that cannot accept the idea of abiogenesis cognitively dissonant.

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Theodoric
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Message 294 of 415 (513803)
07-01-2009 5:24 PM
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07-01-2009 5:14 PM


Very limited of one accepts the Big Bang model as correct. One universe one try, around 13b to 15b years...
Very limited??
15 billion years is very limited?
Wow. Faith just lets you not accept anything you don't understand or can't conceive.
This is called Argument from Incredulity. A logical fallacy.
Dr Adequate has a good explanation on SkepticWiki
Argument from Incredulity -
quote:
an informal logical fallacy where a participant draws a positive conclusion from an inability to imagine or believe the converse.

Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts

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Perdition
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Message 295 of 415 (513804)
07-01-2009 5:25 PM
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07-01-2009 5:14 PM


I agree, (that life would happen given enough time) however time is limited. Very limited of one accepts the Big Bang model as correct. One universe one try, around 13b to 15b years...hmmmm'...
That's the wrong way to look at it. You've got 14 billion years, billions of planets, blillions of points on each planet, and billions of molecules interacting at each point. That's billions upon billions upon billions of chances for a self-replicating reaction to take place.

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DevilsAdvocate
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Message 296 of 415 (513854)
07-02-2009 7:52 AM
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07-01-2009 5:14 PM


RevCrossHugger writes:
I agree, (that life would happen given enough time) however time is limited. Very limited of one accepts the Big Bang model as correct. One universe one try, around 13b to 15b years...hmmmm'...
Rev,
I would have concur to w/ Perdition that given the number of galaxies in the known, observable universe(not counting the possibility of nearly an infinite # of multiple-universes) (approx 1011- 1012 galaxies) with the averaged number of stars in each galaxies (1011 to 1012) for a grand total of 1022-24 stars (that is approx 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the known universe). If we averaged that there are 3 planets around each star (some stars have no planets, some have many more than 3) than this would figure to be approx 3021 planets in the universe. Estimates with the 300+ known extasolar planets we have discovered within the past decade are that nearly half of them could be condusive at some point in the main sequence evolution of the star. Even if we are ultra-conservitive and say only 1/4 of these solar systems have 1 planet that could have at one point in its history have potentially harbored life. Considering that the universe is approx 15 billion years old, the average size of the planet is the size of the earth and with over 221 potentially life-habitable planets, is life really unique only to Earth? Or is this just a form of anthropocentrism.
BTW, I went to college near Elizabethton, TN. Very beautiful place to live. My wife and I just spent time up there at a B&B on the other side of the mountains in Boone earlier this year (she's from Hickory, NC).
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For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
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Message 297 of 415 (513975)
07-03-2009 12:41 AM
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I agree, (that life would happen given enough time) however time is limited. Very limited of one accepts the Big Bang model as correct. One universe one try, around 13b to 15b years...hmmmm'...
That's the wrong way to look at it. You've got 14 billion years, billions of planets, blillions of points on each planet, and billions of molecules interacting at each point. That's billions upon billions upon billions of chances for a self-replicating reaction to take place.
Actually the numbers you have are way too low. Consider that one mole of a substance has a number of molecules equal to 6.02X10^23. And moles of the substance would probably be at most in the hundreds of grams, so you are talking about absolutely massive amounts of molecules all combining and recombining for billions of years.

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Peg
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Message 298 of 415 (514048)
07-03-2009 10:03 AM
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07-01-2009 5:25 PM


perdition writes:
That's the wrong way to look at it. You've got 14 billion years, billions of planets, blillions of points on each planet, and billions of molecules interacting at each point. That's billions upon billions upon billions of chances for a self-replicating reaction to take place.
and in all those billions of places and possibilities, only 1 spot produced life?
spontaneous generation/abiogenesis was demolished by Pasteur's experiments a long time ago. It certainly does not occur in our world today, and you would think that if anything, the probablility of it occuring in a world full of life and with all the right conditons, it would happen. They cant even replicate it in the lab under controlled conditions.
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Granny Magda
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Message 299 of 415 (514049)
07-03-2009 10:06 AM
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06-29-2009 9:41 PM


Re: Interactions
I missed this first time round,
quote:
its not hard to grasp, i completely agree which is why it is impossible that the chemicals can miraculously 'react' to bring something to life
Except that you cited the fact that dead things don't spontaneously spring back to life as proof that life could not start unaided in the first place. This is like suggesting that if a certain chemicals fail to react in one circumstance, they must fail in all circumstances, whatever the conditions. This is clearly a false premise.
No-one is suggesting that the conditions for the first life were anything like the conditions inside a dead human body, so you are wasting your time with this false comparison.

quote:
spontaneous generation/abiogenesis was demolished by Pasteur's experiments a long time ago.
No it was not. Pasteur didn't take early Earth conditions into account in his experiments. He didn't do this because he was not investigating abiogenesis.
You can't compare the conditions for early life with a bit of meat in a jar. You are conflating two different phenomena.
quote:
It certainly does not occur in our world today, and you would think that if anything, the probablility of it occuring in a world full of life and with all the right conditons, it would happen.
No, you would think the opposite. Primitive life would have no toehold on a world already crowded with much more advanced organisms. You can't compare early conditions for life with a modern Earth with wildly differing chemistry and a super-abundance of highly evolved competition in the form of more advanced life.
None of your points address the fact that Earth at the time when abiogenesis is theorised to have taken place was a very different place. There is no reason why we should expect a dead body, a bit of meat in a jar or any part of the modern earth to replicate the process.
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Peg
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Message 300 of 415 (514050)
07-03-2009 10:12 AM
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07-03-2009 10:06 AM


Re: Interactions
Granny Magda writes:
Except that you cited the fact that dead things don't spontaneously spring back to life as proof that life could not start unaided in the first place. This is like suggesting that if a certain chemicals fail to react in one circumstance, they must fail in all circumstances, whatever the conditions. This is clearly a false premise.
yes your right, thats a good pick up.
I guess i used this example because the dead thing contains all the chemicals required for life...but those chemicals do not interact with each other the way abiogenesis would suggest they do.
If life is a result of a chemical reaction, why should it ever end, why should those chemicals stop interacting and cause death??? and what was the force that got them interacting in the first place????
What kept them interacting throughout the creatures life?
It creates more questions then it answers.
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