RE: Nature's Laws
May 24, 2015 at 11:44 am
(This post was last modified: May 24, 2015 at 11:50 am by Freedom4me.)
(May 23, 2015 at 10:58 pm)Esquilax Wrote:(May 23, 2015 at 9:59 pm)Freedom4me Wrote: Are you serious? Just so I understand what you're saying, is it your opinion that living things just know how make copies of themselves without any plan, purpose, or reason that directed or instructed them to do so?
Living organisms don't know how to make copies of themselves (at a genetic level, obviously they know how they reproduce). However, the replication of genetic material, which is a purely chemical process no more out of the ordinary than any other, is a very well understood field of study: here's a reference source so you can learn all about it, if you want. No design, no plan, just chemicals doing what they do in accordance with the predictable and replicable behaviors of chemistry. No magic required, and that is the entirety of genetic replication and reproduction.
Then I've got a way for you to become a billionaire! Well, maybe not you, but one of your great, great, grand kids. Here is what you do: You just buy a few million silicon wafers that haven't been processed (etched) and you plant them in the ground, making your very own "silicon chip farm." As soon as the undirected forces of nature start acting on the silicon chips, it's only a matter of time until at least some of them begin to learn how to reproduce themselves. From that point, the ones that have spontaneously developed the ability to reproduce themselves, you can just let evolution work its magic on these reproducing chips, and eventually you're certain to get some of the most valuable computer chips in the world! It's worth a try, isn't it?