@da_ripper - Ta!
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@kronos <thumbs up>
The cell is all the evidence you need for their existence. On this point ripper is right, however. The sheer enormity of the phase space required to produce a single cell is unthinkable. (I don't recall the figure involved, but B.Brysan provided a wonderful analogy using a slot machine several hundred miles long.... ). The problem is that kronos is also right, as the phase space decreases with time, which for an immortal is more or less a non-entity...
The whole issue is that the pinnacle of evolution, (the modern cell), which manages to maintain itself virtually fault-free for close to 20 years, suddenly decides to disassemble itself ... that's it. It just stops. no reason, no, (discernable), chemical trigger. No, (again..discernible), genetic clock, nothing.... imagine... going to all the trouble to assemble a fully functioning creature, capable of reproducing itself endlessly for who knows how many generations yet to come, then suddenly getting bored with the whole thing, wondering off and becomming part of a tree or a brick ...
Could it be that our CELLS understand overpopulation and have evolved a defense mechanism to prevent it ? What possible reason, (and this could get touchy), would a deity have for this... ? Surely the tennet of faith is that ALL believe in him... so why would He wish for fewer believers... ?
the mind boggles.....
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<OT: Cheese is actually the pinnacle of evolution.....but then we all knew that...>