(January 10, 2015 at 9:25 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Snow, can you understand big numbers?all right, at least you're propounding a theory.
Big, as in billions and trillions... can you grasp intuitively the difference between ten billion and ten trillion?
You can? Then you're greater then most. I can't.
Still, I can understand that simple cell membranes could have formed spontaneously, naturally, under some conditions.
Given the tiny nature of these membranes and probable vast reach of the conditions required, it is reasonable that many many many trillions of such membranes got created.
A few of these could have enveloped some extra proteins that's giving rise to the first cell you claim to be impossible.
If there were many proteins flotation around and many membranes being formed, or stands to reason that some could actually have overlapped...
Do remember also that there were no predators, nothing that would destroy a stable structure... Given enough time and enough membranes, things just happened, and you got lots of cells.
Big numbers means that very unlikely events do end up happening.
Atheist Credo: A universe by chance that also just happened to admit the observer by chance.