(May 11, 2014 at 5:57 pm)RDK Wrote: Absolutely so unlikely! Self replication involves the transfer of information from one place to another, in this case, from one cell to another. Information came from somewhere, transferred through an unproven medium to another place with the ability to decode the info and build a duplicate copy. Who said that any of that was simple? The processing of information technology by that process is still light-years ahead of any computer that we have. The DNA sequencing alone is a lock pickers nightmare. How many years did it take to just locate the genomes there, more importantly, we are just approaching the understanding what each one does, and how this info' process takes place. How long would it take for you to pick a combination lock with just three variables? Now multiply that by ten thousand. Too many combinations to accidentally transfer any good information by chance.
Are you dense on purpose, or for real?
I can't tell....