RE: Let's join the dots
June 20, 2014 at 9:53 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2014 at 9:56 am by vodkafan.)
(June 19, 2014 at 11:42 pm)ignoramus Wrote: All life on earth share a similar design of gene code.
Same players, just different combinations
Therefore in the primordial soup, nature would have played with almost infinite possibilities of variations of these and other chemicals/molecules.
Only one genetic structure made it this far
The others cannot create what we call living
Nature has never stopped trying till this day
Therefore, under the laws of Einsteins Universe as we know it, any life on any planet must have the same gene structure
We are living proof that life exists on "other" planets
Therefore there "are" other life forms who not only are compatible with our gene code, but with all of natures diversity, may even look like us
We also have to assume that intelligence is not explicitly unique us
Therefore as time is relative, there is just as much possibility that these living beings have been around less than us or more ....a lot more.
Therefore "ET's" do exist. We just haven't made contact with any.
Therefore there may logically be a "chance" that they have visited our planet in the past.
Could it be possible that they "kick started" life on earth to give nature a helping hand.
I think you started going wrong at point 6. There is nothing to say that life eleswhere would have the same gene structure. In fact it is most unlikely that exactly the same chemicals and proteins would be used. There are many similar chemicals that are capable of doing the same jobs, but we have evolved using only a fraction of them.
I am just reading a book by John Maddox which discusses exactly that point. It is even thought that there were two types of very similar DNA coding at the beginning of life. The coding in Mitochondria is slightly different than normal cell DNA. It's possible that Mitochondria were independent bacteria that got absorbed by another and retained its own DNA. Also RNA is very similar to DNA, only one base chemical different, and is perhaps earlier than DNA.
I agree that the universe is possibly even teeming with life or conditions that would support life. But I don't agree that it would be like us . Point 7 is off the rails. We are not evidence of anything except ourselves
It's not immoral to eat meat, abort a fetus or love someone of the same sex...I think that about covers it
