(August 22, 2016 at 12:18 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote:RobertE Wrote:It is a weird thought to be honest Mister don't you think? Should scientists be able to recreate the big bang and the primordial soup with the right conditions, they could create life, or am I on the wrong train of thought here?
It may be impossible to create life in the lab just by mimicking the initial conditions. There would have been millions of separate opportunities for it to happen and it took millions of years. Even if it was nearly inevitable (had to happen eventually given enough time), we can't provide that many opportunities and that much time in a lab.
As an analogy, there are over six billion possible bridge hands. We know for a fact that all of them will turn up eventually, but if we wanted a lab to simulate that happening, they would have to do it digitally rather than have a team of scientists shuffling actual cards for years.
Oh, I don't actually doubt you there for one moment, but should they be able to recreate the exact conditions, I am sure they will come up with something that is unicellular with basic functions. After that, it would simply be a question of time. Many experimental scientists over the centuries have been able to recreate a natural phenomenon, and whoever can create the ideal conditions, then he/she would be famous. Should they create somethingg that is unicellular with the most basic of functions as you stated, then all they have to do is observe all changes. The changes won't be great for sure, but whatever minute change in the internal structure is going to be, would be an improvement of the unicellular life form with basic functions. All scientists needs is that for that one unicellular organism to change once, and religion will be dead in the water, if it isn't already.
