Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "Did aliens seed life on Earth? | Sara Walker and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. The biggest question I'd like to see answered about how life began came to me when I watched and listened to a videocast by Professor Jim Tour of Rice University. He said that the membrane of the simplest living cell had 10 to the 78 billion possibilities and only one combination could work. He said the carbohydrates on top of the membrane were more complex than the RNA and DNA combined. Boys and girls, when you add in to the equation that all the parts of the cell have to be combined at just the right moment and just the right temperature for the cell to come alive, you can no longer buy the idea of the primordial soup and all of the things necessary for the cell to function happening in one shot by chance. Of course, we'll never know. But the incredible complexity of a single cell--when one part of the cell wants to send material to another part of the cell it builds a suspended bridge, sends over the material, and then the bridge dissolves---there is no way that single cell happened in a muddy pond somewhere and life began. I'm not a scientist, but after hearing Jim Tour's lecture, I could no longer believe what I learned from science classes in school. The thing is, even if life emerged somewhere else in the universe, the absolutely phenomenal complexity of just one little bitty cell is beyond our mind's ability to understand. Whatever happened for the first cell to begin and then the branching off and mutating and forming plants, animals etc., is something we can only ponder on but probably never find the origin of. But I hope I'm wrong; I hope they do find the answer, because I have been in complete awe of what life is since I listened to Jim Tour's lecture.
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