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Emergent complexity from simple interaction forces is a fascinating phenomenon in statistical physics. There's nothing wierd or intelligent about it.
Take a soap molecule, with an ionic phosphate group attached to a hydrocarbon tail. it dissolves in water. put more in, and they spontaneously arrange in membranes at the surface. put even more, they arrange into a sphere. why? because the solvation of the hydrocarbon tail requires a local entropy decrease in the water due to its nonpolar character, but the arrangement into more complex shapes rather than a solution lowers the overall energy.
Take a fine powder of a block copolymer with half the chain soluble in water (like PEG) and the other half not (like PE). It's just jumbled chains. Solvate them in water though, and they will spontaneously phase separate into water soluble polymer on the outside and non-soluble on the inside.
Life is just the result of 3 billion years of statistical physics.
How would you explain the impossible probabilities associated with the theory of evolution by natural selection?
we think earth is special, because we live here. but thats not the case. there are other earth-like planets out there. we've also had 3 billion years. repeat the same conditions 3 billion times, and give each 3 billion years to run, and one of them will succeed.
also, natural selection is seen to work as we speak. in the 1940's, penicilin was the hot sh!t because it was like a magical silver bullet that killed bacteria like nothing. today it is a joke because bacteria have evolved in the past 70 years to degrade penicilin. note that this is not a single bacterium that's changing its cells. a single bacterium lasts for about 2 hours before being eaten.
i'm not going to go into the philosophy of the evolution theory, just pointing out that it exists and has been seen in a single human lifetime.
if bacteria can do this in 70 years, is it a big stretch to say that big animals can in the span of millions?
the lottery also has impossible probabilities but someone will win, right?
appreciate you trying to drill some sense into these islamics' heads who refuse to believe in science and want proof, but accept that god created earth without any proof saying its faith.we think earth is special, because we live here. but thats not the case. there are other earth-like planets out there. we've also had 3 billion years. repeat the same conditions 3 billion times, and give each 3 billion years to run, and one of them will succeed.
also, natural selection is seen to work as we speak. in the 1940's, penicilin was the hot sh!t because it was like a magical silver bullet that killed bacteria like nothing. today it is a joke because bacteria have evolved in the past 70 years to degrade penicilin. note that this is not a single bacterium that's changing its cells. a single bacterium lasts for about 2 hours before being eaten.
i'm not going to go into the philosophy of the evolution theory, just pointing out that it exists and has been seen in a single human lifetime.
if bacteria can do this in 70 years, is it a big stretch to say that big animals can in the span of millions?
the lottery also has impossible probabilities but someone will win, right?