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Old 26-08-2009, 12:32 PM
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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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Regards, Rob

The Earth only had single celled organisms for about three billion years. It is estimated that the early precursors to life on this planet are many times the biomass what is on the surface. Where do they live? In solid granite. These organisms only reproduce once every hundred years.

I will not mention the bacteria that live in hot springs or the bacteria that are at the bottom of the ocean and only live on a poisonous gas H2S for their energy and subsistence.

I only see what is there and try to understand.

I am most probably wasting my time as I know where you are coming from. End of story.

Bert
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