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origin of life: the probability of making a protein

Any sort of argument against creation as an explanation for the origin of life would need to include the mechanism whereby life can arise from non-life. That is, it would need to explain how the very first cells have ever formed solely from the laws of chemistry and physics, without appealing to some biological process, since at the beginning biological processes wouldn't have come into play yet. An absolutely fundamental necessity for the first cells to ever arise would presuppose the existence of their building blocks, which would include proteins. However, since proteins are chemical structures composed of amino acids (and there are only 20 amino acids), protein formation by chance would need to account for how random combinations of amino acids could somehow come together to find usable molecules, since not all combinations of amino acids produce useful chains of amino acids that can properly fold into proteins. Some of the simplest proteins consist of chains of amino acids that are only a couple hundred acids in length, with some of the largest proteins consisting of amino acid chains stretching over 34,000 acids long! With this in mind, we can use mathematics and simple probability theory to determine if enough time has passed in the universe for even the simplest proteins to have been created (let alone start the process of Darwinian evolution by means of natural selection and random mutation). So then, has enough time possibly passed to let that happen? Watch this next video to find out:




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