Smidlee said:
That's because you can't prove a negitive with science. Mad cow disease is just another way of destroying life. A lot easier destroyong life than creating it. You are still on the snow example when man can clearly reproduce snow with great ease. Man does not just have trouble creating life but even proteins. This is why they are putting spider DNA into goats in order to get the complex spiderweb proteins out of the milk. So far they haven't found a way to make them artifically. Here is an interesting recent article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100702100414.htm "Transferred to the technical world, this could be described as a power transmission by a coupling rod, which connects for instance the wheels of a steam train." |
I'm not sure what your point is on mad cow disease. Mad Cow Disease is caused by prions which are very similar to viruses. Granted viruses are not life, but they are replicating chemical reactions which is what life is at its very basic. Life/replicating reactions rely on organic matter and the most abundant source of organic matter is life itself which is why these prions attack organisms. This does not in anyway prove that it's easier to destroy life than create it, and even if it is, what does that even prove?
Evolution does not explain the origin of life. It explains the diversity of life. Scientists have created many proteins/amino acids. The reason they take spider DNA into goats is because it's cheaper than creating the protein and then injecting it into goats every couple of years, which is what would be required if they had to produce the proteins themselves. The reason scientists are having difficult creating life is because it took billions of years for life to emerge, and henceforth, would require a catalyst so great for such a reaction to be witness.
Single celled organisms that exist today are not suppose to be simple. They have been evolving almost 4 billion years in environment of harsh competitions. Bacteria are one of the most adaptable organisms on earth and can survive pH levels from 1-14 and temperatures from the vents of lava in the ocean to the top of the Himalayas.
Now the probability of a simple self replicating chemical reaction is fairly slim. After that, the suitest molecule would be the one that replicates the quickest. Eventually those molecules would absorb from other replicating molecules in order to replicate quicker. This was the first competition against other reactions. Some absorbed other molecules and replicated while others found protection through lipid layers(which in water encloses like a bubble) which protected the molecules. This was the first cell. It was very basic.
