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Pastimes : Neocon's Seminar Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (498)	5/8/2001 4:21:23 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

L. de Nouy, in Human Destiny, covered this - actually, he covered the probability of spontaneous generation of a protein molecule. He cites a Professor Guye who attempted the calculation. To keep things simple, he assumed that this imaginery protein molecule would have a dissymmetry of 0.9 (whereas elementary molecules of living organisms show considerable dissymmetry, maximum dissymmetry being 1.0). The molecular weight would be assumed at 20,000 (whereas a simple protein like egg albumin has a molecular weight of 34,500). Only two kinds of atoms would be in this molecule, whereas there are always at least four in such a living molecule. The mathematical probability that this protein molecule would form under these simplified circumstances by pure chance is 2.02 X 10^-321 or 1 in 2.02 X 10^321. The volume of substance necessary for this to take place would be a sphere with a radius 10^82 light years in size - that is several sextillion times greater than the Einsteinian universe! The time needed to form ONE such molecule by chance and normal thermic agitations in a volume of substance equal to the Earth is 10^243 billion years; the Earth has only been cool enough for life to exist for about one billion years! And this is only for one molecule! -- I guess that is the research Blatty used.