BillB
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| Quote (sparc @ Dec. 11 2013,05:13) | | Threads in which Sal and KF teach each other are reminiscent of Pseudoceros bifurcus mating fights. |
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By many orders of magnitude, we don’t get to even one molecule each of the required polymers per planet, much less bringing them together in the required proximity for them to work together as the molecular machinery of life.
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I would have thought that where you have a natural chemical process that is producing polymers, it would both be messy and localised - KF is assuming that any natural chemical process that could produce a polymer would only produce one, and there would be no others in the vicinity, or no other similar processes happening nearby. Lots of things that are rare, but do actually happen, appear to be statistically impossible when you divide them by the size of the universe.
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