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How can life arise? (comment on the possibility of life originating on Kepler425b)

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How can life arise? (comment on the possibility of life originating on Kepler425b)

For life to arise on earth or otherwise, it is not enough to have "essential elements" and "favorable conditions"! Tools and ingredients are carefully placed in the kitchen corner. Two cans of tuna, a bag of noodles, a block of cheese ale, in addition to onions, green peas...

How can life arise? (comment on the possibility of life originating on Kepler425b) For life to arise on earth or elsewhere, it is not enough to have “essential elements” and “favorable conditions”! Tools and ingredients are carefully placed in the corner of the kitchen. Two cans of tuna, a bag of noodles, a lump of cream cheese, plus onions, frozen green peas, a cream of intense mushroom soup, a can of mushrooms, and a cup of potatoes to decorate. The equipment is ready; mixing pan, baking pan, bowl of water for boiling noodles, can opener, cheese grater, and pasta strainer. Slab for chopping and knife for chopping onions. Open one eye of the stove, set the oven to 220 degrees (425 degrees Fahrenheit). Your family is hungry, but everything is in place! The recipe preparation method tells you that processing takes 15 minutes and cooking 20 minutes, and of course this is at the latest. Now, sit back and rest. How long will it take for these same items to combine to make a tuna noodle dish? Pour yourself a glass and watch this happen. You're worried now that the stuff doesn't have a way of physically coming together? Well, as the days go by and you continue to stare intently at your unassembled plate, maybe the predicted Seattle earthquake will come and push these things together. Cheese hits the grater, a can of tuna knocks the can opener, and water floats in its bowl and some of it goes out into the closed pasta bag and throws away enough of it after the collision. Silly! No more ridiculous than the stories that have become a regular feature of science news that predict, with this measurement difference, the wonders of a bone that will happen automatically when the "components" of life or some of them appear somewhere. Whether it's on a distant, Earth-like planet outside the solar system, or at an earlier stage of the Earth itself. This week both came from NASA and Nature. NASA has released reports of the discovery of the new world Kepler-425b, about 1,400 light-years away, which appears to resemble the Earth in major ways, and orbits in the habitable zone around a star similar to our Sun. Kepler-452b can be seen as a much larger, much older cousin to Earth, providing an opportunity to understand and reflect on Earth's evolving environment," said John Jenkins, Kepler data analyst at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffitt Field, California, who led the team that discovered Kepler-452b. "It's more daunting to consider that this planet has spent six billion years in the habitable zone of its star than it ever has." Meanwhile on Earth, he told us that the genesis of complex life from simpler forms should be more than just a crackle as he thought. Previous theorists have said that it requires abundant amounts of oxygen runoff in ancient seas. Now, that addition should be seen as more modern, and again with Science Daily: According to a multi-institution research team, which included Virginia Tech geologists, if oxygen was the leader in the early evolution of animals, it was easy. The discovery, published in the journal Nature, called into question the long-held theory that dramatic changes in oxygen levels may have been responsible for the emergence of complex life forms such as whales, sharks, and evolved squids from less complex forms of life such as microorganisms, algae, and sponges. Researchers have discovered high levels of oxygen in water and the atmosphere, but they are lower than predicted to be necessary for life to change. “We suggest that 635 million to 542 million years ago, the Earth crossed a small but critical threshold in animal oxygenation,” says Benjamin Gill, associate professor of geosciences at the Faculty of Science. “That threshold was 10 to 40 percent higher, and was the second time in Earth’s history that oxygen levels have risen significantly.” Do you follow logic? If oxygen was the "leader of the early evolution of animals," then only a "small impact" was necessary, since that was all that was available. We have said many times before, both on our planet and on other planets, the components and conditions fall far short of explaining the evolution of life from the non-living, or the simple to the complex. In fact, the tuna dish has a much better chance of being prepared than it does – expecting life to come from conditions and ingredients, since at least we know how to make the dish. Knowing the ingredients and arranging them in the kitchen is different from knowing how they are supposed to mix. If you're hungry now, do you think it's only a matter of time before the food is ready? Sources: Title: For the Origin of Life, on Earth or Elsewhere, "Ingredients and Conditions" http://www.evolutionnews.org/2015/07/for_the_origin_097991.html Sanis Daily article: Bigger, Elder Cousin to Earth Discovered http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/07/150723115703.htm - David Kleinhofer. — Source: Brahin Center website - Posted on 2015-12-09 (archived at the Internet Archive) https://braheen.com/articles/evolution-design/كيف-يمكن-أن-تنشأ-الحياة؟-تعليق-على-إمكانية-نشأة-الحياة-على-كيبلر425ب

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