RE: The Bible is the claim, not the evidence
December 12, 2013 at 11:42 pm
(This post was last modified: December 12, 2013 at 11:51 pm by Ksa.)
^ The reply to that is...you know, I'm a Chemical Engineer by profession, and...if for example we observe certain oxidation marks on a piece of equipment we start looking for presence of oxygen and water. Trying to prove how it exactly happened is a bit beyond the scope. In cases like this it's about finding the CULPRIT.
The reason itself may still be unknown, maybe there was a KMnO4 leak that got mixed with H2SO4 and gave a super reactive manganese heptoxide that gave those burn marks on the equipment. It's beyond the scope. If we can trace the water and the oxygen, we stopped the oxidation so we can go home bang our wives.
In long time lines like that we look for culprits, like hydrocarbons, phosphor, ammonia, and if those are present, it's only a matter of time before they reunite in an RNA molecule. The culprits are there proving that it is possible. In my opinion, how it exactly happened is beyond the scope. The only way to prove is to mix the culprits together, record the molecular interactions for a billion years and then fast play the video after to see what happened which we cannot do. No catalyst for life was so far found, no catalyst speeds up such formation...it takes amounts of time that our human life perspective cannot comprehend. You're used to dealing with years and when you think about centuries you already get dizzy so, no one can understand what a billion years means.
My belief is that life is inevitable when it comes to chemistry because molecules come together based on the most stable configuration, so for it to go into stability realms of the DNA molecule...the reaction time is very very long. It's a very complex reaction that requires for the medium to remain stable for billions of years. That's all it takes: For everything to remain the same for a very long time.
The reason itself may still be unknown, maybe there was a KMnO4 leak that got mixed with H2SO4 and gave a super reactive manganese heptoxide that gave those burn marks on the equipment. It's beyond the scope. If we can trace the water and the oxygen, we stopped the oxidation so we can go home bang our wives.
In long time lines like that we look for culprits, like hydrocarbons, phosphor, ammonia, and if those are present, it's only a matter of time before they reunite in an RNA molecule. The culprits are there proving that it is possible. In my opinion, how it exactly happened is beyond the scope. The only way to prove is to mix the culprits together, record the molecular interactions for a billion years and then fast play the video after to see what happened which we cannot do. No catalyst for life was so far found, no catalyst speeds up such formation...it takes amounts of time that our human life perspective cannot comprehend. You're used to dealing with years and when you think about centuries you already get dizzy so, no one can understand what a billion years means.
My belief is that life is inevitable when it comes to chemistry because molecules come together based on the most stable configuration, so for it to go into stability realms of the DNA molecule...the reaction time is very very long. It's a very complex reaction that requires for the medium to remain stable for billions of years. That's all it takes: For everything to remain the same for a very long time.