Chaotic chemical reactions produce nothing but chaotic constructs. Biology is anything but chaotic, it’s our minds that inject the chaotic notion because biology so overwhelmingly complex.
The creation of the Krebs cycle wasn’t a chaotic process. It require a very specific sequence, even if the surrounding ocean chemistry was a chaotic brew.
Also your words still don’t acknowledge the importance of the changing planetary environment and its impact on the types of life those processes could achieve.
The Ediacaran - Cambrian Explosion happened when it did, as a result of the consequences of a “Snowball Earth”, that scoured a ~billion years worth of geology into fine powder and sent it off into the seas. Thus providing the building blocks that the already well established biology of the very tiny, could then exploit to reach new heights of biological achievement.
This bring me back to appreciating the hierarchy of life.
At each stage the amount of survivable chaos is reduced by many orders of magnitude.
So sure life is, given proper conditions, must exist on other planets, and is probably inevitable. But, that’s still a few billion years (and a nearly infinite amount of ‘good luck’) away from a planet that can host a god-like creature like we are.
Planet Earth, our home… we’ve got so many questions about it! How was the Earth formed? How did animals get on Earth? Why did the Earth split into continents? When did the dinosaurs go extinct? Here’s a video that’ll show you the history of Earth in a nutshell. What if we could fit our planet’s history into 24 hours? Let’s watch the Earth evolve!
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Chaotic chemical reactions produce nothing but chaotic constructs.
No, chaos theory clearly states that orderly patterns form spontaneously from dynamic chaos.
Biology is anything but chaotic, it’s our minds that inject the chaotic notion because biology is so overwhelmingly complex.
Exactly, what was once a chaotic proto-planet is now a complex but orderly self-regulating biome. That is the very example of the evolutionary process.
All complex patterns (order) in the universe are a result and product of evolutionary processes
The creation of the Krebs cycle wasn’t a chaotic process. It required a very specific sequence, even if the surrounding ocean chemistry was a chaotic brew.
Yes, but the Krebs self-duplicating polymer was self-formed from simpler elements over a long period of time and changing planetary conditions.
Just look at the Yurey-Miller experiment. A simple experiment that spontaneously produced thousands of different molecules. And when they put some of that “stuff” in water it self-organized in what may be called proto-cells.
You need to consider that Nature is the greatest chemistry laboratory. Organic molecules already form in interstellar clouds.
The number of chemical reactions taking place in the universe approaches infinity.
Earth itself has performed 2 trillion, quadrillion, quadrillion, quadrillion chemical experiments during its lifetime. Try to wrap your mind around that number.
There is no other designer than the Nature of spacetime itself, from just a handful of elements Earth life requires some 600 biochemicals out of the known 6000 .
This is a self-organized polymer polymerization , any process in which relatively small molecules, called monomers, combine chemically to produce a very large chainlike or network molecule, called a polymer. The monomer molecules may be all alike, or they may represent two, three, or more different compounds.
Usually at least 100 monomer molecules must be combined to make a product that has certain unique physical properties—such as elasticity, high tensile strength, or the ability to form fibres—that differentiate polymers from substances composed of smaller and simpler molecules; often, many thousands of monomer units are incorporated in a single molecule of a polymer.
The formation of stable covalent chemical bonds between the monomers sets polymerization apart from other processes, such as crystallization, in which large numbers of molecules aggregate under the influence of weak intermolecular forces.
The process is simple, but it requires a dynamic environment (chaos) to self-organize into orderly patterns. This principle applies to all planets dependent on the available chemical resources.
Just look at a gene. Its incredibly complex instruction sequencing consists of only 4 fundamental biochemicals.
we’ve got so many questions about it! How was the Earth formed? How did animals get on Earth? Why did the Earth split into continents? When did the dinosaurs go extinct? Here’s a video that’ll show you the history of Earth in a nutshell. What if we could fit our planet’s history into 24 hours? Let’s watch the Earth evolve!
