(January 10, 2015 at 8:15 pm)snowtracks Wrote: wonderful. now, what about the cell membrane and cell evolving at same time but each dependent upon the other?Where do you get the silly idea that the internal complexity of the cell and cell membrane somehow had to evolve at the same time?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_soup
The first replicators are thought to have arisen in some way (currently unknown, not impossible) sometime in the first billion years after earth formed. They were replicating molecules, not cells. Replicating molecules don't have exoskeletons. They don't fossilize.
The successful ones persisted and expanded their domains, but they were in solution, not cells. Somewhere in the next BILLION to BILLION AND A HALF years, prokaryotes occurred. We see zillions of these around today, happily replicating for the last several BILLION years. Prokaryotes are bags of replicators. So at the soup to prokaryote transformation, you didn't have two separate evolutions intersecting. You had the replicating soup which all of a sudden(sic) invented the bag to hold itself in.
Over the next three quarters of a BILLION years the prokaryotes descended with modification and eventually, almost 2,000,000,000 years ago left indications that they had developed internal mechanisms to a sufficient degree that we can call them eukaryotes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_o...ry_of_life
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat?