Originally posted by midnight Target
Lets assume for just a moment that we cannot create (new) life in the lab. What exactly does that prove Mr. Hortlund3?
That would indicate that the evolution theory is flawed.
Remember the criteria for scientific knowledge midnight?
Miko2d put it rather well when he said "The unique property of science is that it makes usable and verifiable predictions and that all its statements can be disproved. There is a whole lot of knowlege that does not fall under the definition of scientific knowlege because there is no way to disprove it or make verifiable predictions based on it even if it were true."
So ok, we have this theory about the primordeal soup. We have the ingredients in this soup, and the theory says that we should add electricity and somehow life will "spawn" or whatever.
Here is a theory, that science has tried to verify using thousands of experiments, but not once have they succeeded. That makes the theory flawed. Or maybe flawed is a strong word, lets just say that it makes the theory just that...a theory...nothing else. And guess what, there is no ranking among theories, they all are equally "true".
Lets talk a bit more about this primordeal soup and the creation of life midnight.
Lets look at probabilities shall we?
Dr. James Coppedge, of the Center for Probability Research in Biology in California, made some interesting calculations.
Dr. Coppedge applied all the laws of probability studies to the possibility of a single cell coming into existence by chance. He considered in the same way a single protein molecule, and even a single gene. He was very generous to the evolutionists, in fact he computed a world in which the entire crust of the earth - all the oceans, all the atoms, the whole crust were included in "the soup".
He then had these amino acids bind at a rate one and one-half trillion times faster than they do in nature.
In computing the possibilities, he found that to provide
a single protein molecule by chance combination would take 10, to the 262nd power, years." (That is, the number 1 followed by 262 zeros.)
To get a single cell - the single smallest living cell known to mankind - which is called the mycroplasm hominis H39, would take 10, to the 119 841st power, years. Try to write it down, use a normal sized book. Start on page one with a "1" and then write 60 pages of zero's behind it. That is how many years it would take to make one living cell, smaller than any human cell.
According to Emile Borel, a French scientist specialized in the area of probability, an event on the cosmic level with a probability of less than 1 out of 10, to the 50th power, will not happen. The probability of producing one human cell by chance is 10, to the 119,000 power.
