Smidlee on 03 July 2010
| Dodece said: The truth is that this evolution could have happened billions or trillions of times. The bacterial population of this planet is truly massive. |
The population of bacteria for 5 billion years is extremely small when it comes to finding the right combination for a 300 amino acid protein with the correct 3D fold.The speed of light also seems fast until you take in the account just how huge space really is. Speed of light is extremely slow when it comes to traveling in space. The more we learn about life the more complex it becomes and the more we realize just how short 5 billion years is .
