Comments by "" (@tekannon7803) on "The deepest question: Who designed life on Earth? | Neil Gershenfeld and Lex Fridman" video.

  1. The simple cell has a membrane with 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations but only one will work. The carbohydrtes on the surface of the membrane ARE more complex than the RNA and the DNA combined. When a cell wants to transfer material from one part of it to another, it builds a monorail system that picks up the material and delivers it where it is needed. Then the monorail dissolves. All the parts of a cell must come together and be assembleD at exactly the right time and the right temperature. Carbohdrates age quickly and carmelize rapidly and therefore would have to join the other parts of the cell at exactly the right time. They could not be made and then wait 3 weeks, for example. I am paraphrasing Dr Jim Tour. He says we have made no progress in understanding how a simple cell works from the early 1950s because of how complex a simple cell is. What am I saying here? How in the world would a simple cell even have been able to form? Not from the primordial soup we all grew up hearing about in science class, that's for sure. Where did all of the parts of a cell form and decide to come together and with the right combination for the membrane etc. and then come alive?
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