forex Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 (edited) All bio-structures are built from the same six essential elemental ingredients: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulfur (CHNOPS). They differ only in the number and spatial arrangements of these ingredients. Hence, if we start with the simple self-replicating molecule, then the only way to find evolutionary selectable spatial arrangements of CHNOPS is by re-arrangements.The idea of evolution is based on two fundamental premises. The first one says that mutations cause variations a.k.a. re-arrangements or different spatial arrangements of CHNOPS. The second one says that the certain variations will be selectively preserved in response to environment. For example, when variation/arrangement of CHNOPS, that we call - a photosensitive cell, exists, and it is beneficial in the current environment, then - it will be selected. That's fine. But that begs the question: how did this selectable combination of CHNOPS came to be? This is the crucial and the most important question. There are virtually infinite number of ways in which these CHNOPS can be arranged, and most are junk, or non-selectable arrangements. For e.g. for a protein 92 AA long, with 10e122 possible AA combinatios, there is only 1 in every 10e63 functional sequence(Reidhaar-Olson&Sauer). Using fast mutation rates, total number of organisms that have ever lived on Earth, length of genomes and so forth... published extreme upper limit estimates puts the maximum number of mutations or CHNOPS re-arrangements at 10e50. So, how can evolution be true if the total number of evolutionary CHNOPS re-arrangements in insufficient to find only one selectable state for evolution to preserve - a protein. Edited January 25, 2017 by forex -1
swansont Posted January 25, 2017 Posted January 25, 2017 ! Moderator Note I don't see this as being substantially different than a previous thread which was locked, and had a DNR.
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