(May 11, 2014 at 7:26 pm)RDK Wrote: When you find a chemical that makes life, let me know.
Missing the point. You've been arguing about the astronomical implausibility of atoms combining in exactly the right way to allow life to happen. Chemical bonds and polymerisation are not at all random. They are the atomic and molecular equivalent of differently shaped pegs only fitting into matching holes. In other words, there are only so many ways for atoms and hence molecules to combine.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
