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Old 26-08-2009, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by avandonk View Post
The old furphy of random events being unlikely to produce any organism has been debunked long ago. If you set up a system with simple rules it will by trial and error lead to complexity by tiny increments. Not spontaneous appearance such as the ridiculous analogies some people propose.

Evolution by random events can be shown repeatedly in any competent biological laboratory.

Bert
Bert. Let's take a step back here! I've yet to see an artificially created living cell formed from a pool of random chemicals even if they are organic. Any primitive organism needs to be able to metabolise and at the same time be able to reproduce itself. There is certainly an element of spontaneity in this, which can be reflected in a very low order of probability.

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