RE: The code that is DNA
December 16, 2019 at 6:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2019 at 6:45 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
I don't know anything about odds, but the strangeness and rarity of life is certainly interesting. We can easily envision a world in which life is constantly and continually emerging naturally out of the environment, much like waves in the sea. Instead, if it ever did arise naturally it only appears to have done so once, however many billions of years ago the standard model suggests, and in only one location in the universe, and then never again.
I emphasize once mostly because evolution always attempts to trace ancestry to a single common ancestor for all life. Rarely do you hear someone suggest multiple lineages emerging from separate origins of life.
I emphasize once mostly because evolution always attempts to trace ancestry to a single common ancestor for all life. Rarely do you hear someone suggest multiple lineages emerging from separate origins of life.