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Originally posted by miriam
As you are the one giving the presentation on this subject, Sticks, I think you should have the honour.
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Sir Fredrick Hoyle, in discussing the curent theory that life arose from a chemical soup on the primordial Earth, said
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“The chance that higher forms have emerged in this way is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk-yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the materials therein {Hoyle on Evolution, Nature Vol 294, 12th November 1981}
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Earlier he had also said
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At all events, anyone with even a nodding acquaintance with the Rubik cube will concede the near-impossibility of a solution being obtained by a blind person moving the cubic faces at random. Now imagine 10^50 blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling at just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only biopolymers but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order
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All I need now is an unscrambled Rubik cube.....
