(March 31, 2016 at 11:56 pm)robvalue Wrote: Life is elegant because it accomplishes what it needs to, huh?
Are these needs being imposed on the designer, or did he impose them upon himself? Is he solving a task that was already set up for him, or did he create the task and all the requirements?
In other words, where are all these obstacles coming from, for him to overcome?
The obstacle that it must overcome is the constant movement of all reactions toward equilibrium. They have elegant systems to manipulate molecules and couple reactions together so that they can disrupt equilibrium. If they could not avoid chemical equilibrium, they could not survive. However, this obstacle is also essential for life. The fact that reactions have a desire to move toward equilibrium allows organisms to take advantage of this to utilize energy.