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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: pezz who wrote (57855)8/2/1999 12:15:00 PM
From: gao seng  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Perhaps you didn't see Space Odyssey 2001?

For life to appear on Earth, a protein of a molecule of a certain configuration was the necessary building block. Hundreds of millions of them, in fact, but just for the moment, assume it was one. For just one of these molecules to appear by chance would require a material volume of more than sextillion, sextillion times that of the known size of the universe. And considered strictly from the angle of time, given a material volume the size of the Earth, such a probability would require ten to the two hundred forty-third power billions. That would give us just one molecule of the right configuration: but in fact, for life, we'd need billions! Right?

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