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Wow.Spontaneous generation is a long-discredited idea
Spontaneous generation is a very specific model which has long been discredited.Wow.
I'm not following you at all on this.
To me, either you have life, or you don't.
No, not at all. The road to life did not occur in one single step. It may be worthwhile to read up a bit on abiogenesis.Something magical or spontaneous needs to happen for this great leap, I can't seem to picture anything in between of this.
'Spontaneous Generation' refers to the old idea of how life originated - rotten meat would generate flies, bales of hay would generate mice, that sort of thing. We know better nowadays, but the term 'Spontaneous Generation' still refers to that idea. The modern theory of how life began is called Abiogenesis, which describes it as the successive coming-together of successively more complex molecules (something we see happen spontaneously in the lab; qv. the Miller-Urey experiment). Eventually, you get a replicating protein, and then evolution (or evolution-like processes) take over. It's more detailed than that, but that's the jist of it.Wow.
I'm not following you at all on this.
To me, either you have life, or you don't.
Something magical or spontaneous needs to happen for this great leap, I can't seem to picture anything in between of this.
But hey, I'm not posting here to start a debate.
I just wanted to know if I could grow a monster in a backyard pool filled with junk.
Obviously, I would spend too long of a time waiting for this. *lol*
Probably not what you were thinking of, but that reminds me of the Epic of Evolution.To be honest here....
I wish God would find someone to write an extended release, 18th edition to the modern bible for today.
To paraphrase the Doctor, science is coolI mean Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine can do this. Why not Him?
Anyway, thank you for the great responses. This honestly is making my brain reel with what life is really all about.
Make sure you keep it absolutely sterile and preferable RNAse freeIf I filled an empty, backyard pool full of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, then pumped some amino acids, fatty lipids, a lot of sodium and potassium into it, perhaps the right amount of enzymes, along with a dash of vitamins and minerals.... Is there any possible chance of ever creating, in theory, some type of franken entity that would emerge and come alive, even if it was just a small speck of moving life?
I'm actually a little serious about this. *lol*
Well, then, I think that means one of two things:It's city garbage.
The only integers I'm aware of that are common are 1, 2, and 3. The fraction 1/2 is common as well. The rest seem to be real numbers, such as pi, e, 1/137.036.Okay, here's a question...
I kind of believe that God has a love or an affinity to certain numbers such as 3, 7, and 144,000.
Are any of these numbers found in physics or equations that unify complex theories about our existence?
Not that I recall.Thank you.
So there isn't any formula that comes to the front of your mind that has a seven in it?
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