I've had one friend...great bloke too. He overcame many personal problems and issues to become a well ballanced and well respected figure. He was always there for me and I for him.
I loved him very much and respected him immensely. Even though we've lost touch due to him getting wed and leaving the country, we'd still be just the same I'm sure.
Thermodynamics indicates that the Universe is still young, in relative terms.
Still, you accept the remote possibility of even one amino acid being produced through chance, despite the vast chances against the circumstances being present?
In 1977 Prof. Hubert Yockey, a specialist in applying information theory to biological problems, studied the data for cytochrome a in great detail.1 His calculated value for the probability in a single trial construction of a chain of 100 amino acid molecules of obtaining by chance a working copy of the enzyme molecule is 1/1065 , or the fraction 1 divided by 1 followed by 65 zeros.
Prof. Harold Morowitz estimated that the simplest theoretically conceivable living organism would have to possess a minimum of 124 different protein molecules. A rough estimate of the probability of all of these protein molecules to be formed by chance in a single chance happening would be P124P = (1/1065)124 = 1/108060, the fraction 1 divided by the number 1 followed by 8060 zeros.
Prof. Morowitz made a careful study of the energy content of living cells and of the building block molecules of which the cells are constructed. From this thermodynamic information he was able to calculate the probability that an ocean full of chemical "soup" containing the necessary amino acids and other building block molecules would react in a year to produce by chance just one copy of a simple living cell.
He arrived at the astronomically small probability of Pcell = 1/10340,000,000, the fraction 1 divided by 1 followed by 340 million zeros.
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RE: Destiny and Us ..
So millions or billions were/are destined to starve?Murder victims?
Etc?