As Eric Anderson explains to Andrew McDiarmid:
In their conversation, Anderson suggests that there are engineering principles involved in the origin of life that may mean that a naturalistic origin is less like winning a long-odds lottery, and more like the chances of an inventor successfully building a perpetual motion machine. That is, it isn’t just a tough probability problem; there are reasons for concluding that it’s impossible in principle. Also, Anderson notes, the early Earth wasn’t the kinder, gentler place for simple self-replicators that Darwin or Dawkins has imagined.
Evolution News, “New ID Book Zeroes in on Evolution’s Zero-Probability Problem” at Evolution News and Science Today:
Dr Cronin and Dr Szostak have promised to create a simple prokaryotic cell from scratch (unlike Dr Venter) in their labs and thus win the most coveted Evo2.0 OOL $10M prize, judged by Dr Denis Noble and Dr George Church.
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Lotteries are carefully designed to be winnable without bankrupting their sponsors. Perpetuum mobiles violating the second law appeal to statistical miracles.
Designing and building a life form in the lab, to be taken as evidence of the power of non design???
KF,
“Designing and building a life form in the lab”?
Well, let’s wait and see.
Yes, agree that would not do much good to support the unguided OOL. But I’ll have to see it to believe it. Not holding my breath though.
We ought to be worrying more about EOL than OOL. Nearly all governments are now engaged in a concentrated final holocaust. Is there a way to slow it down?
This is quite interesting. Based on the title, I assume they have an argument showing that it is literally impossible (and not just that the probability is zero).
Since DaveS wants a ‘literal’ demonstration that life from non-life is impossible, and not just to be shown that the mathematical probability is for all intents and purposes zero, here is that ‘literal’ demonstration:
Indeed, “Open your ears” DaveS!
And for good measure, here are two “figurative” demonstrations that life from non-life is impossible.