[OOC] Myriad Reality

[DarkwolfX37]

Etcetera said
When it comes to gene creation, before any viruses existed, it was closed.

You... you realize that viruses were most likely the first pseudo life there was.... right? They're most likely the reason life exists at all.

[Etcetera]

DarkwolfX37 said
You... you realize that viruses were most likely the first pseudo life there was.... right? They're most likely the reason life exists at all.

Most theories say the beginning of life was bacteria. Aside from the fact the viruses aren't life at all, the only way new genetic information can enter a living creature is through viral injection of cells, where most of it lies dormant. Even at the beginning, there was no way to expand this genetic library.

[whizzball1]

DarkwolfX37 said
Life comes from non life literally every day. Cambrian explosion: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/03/4/l_034_02.html http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evosite/evo101/VIIB1cCambrian.shtmlWhat you're doing is literally the exact same as throwing out most of the pieces of a puzzle, putting the rest into place, and then claiming that the puzzle can't possibly form what it says it does on the box because by looking at these pieces, it's not possible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/extinction_eventsYour flood is not only impossible, but is irrelevant. That implies a false scenario. In order for that statement to be correct, there would have to be one set of 18 in existence, rather than the countless individual ones that would form a more accurate scenario.

You don't seem to understand what scientists mean when they say "life coming from non-life". When we say non-life, we mean something that is not living. A usual living thing has some kind of nervous system, in the case of a single-cellular organism, its nucleus, and a way to produce food for itself. A living, "thinking", "eating" thing cannot come from something that isn't "thinking" or "eating". That's extremely oversimplified, but I'm proving a point.

According to your first article:
"Then, between about 570 and 530 million years ago, another burst of diversification occurred, with the eventual appearance of the lineages of almost all animals living today. This stunning and unique evolutionary flowering is termed the "Cambrian explosion," taking the name of the geological age in whose early part it occurred. But it was not as rapid as an explosion: the changes seems to have happened in a range of about 30 million years, and some stages took 5 to 10 million years. "
Within 40 million years, we get nearly every single lineage of animals living today. However, for the next 500 million years, we don't see this kind of diversification ever again. It's very, very fishy.

About your puzzle analogy:
Right now we're just examining the life from non-life puzzle, which is a puzzle in itself. In order to explain how life came about from non-life, we have to explain:
How the countless amino acids were formed and brought together.
How these amino acids were all only right or left-handed.
How these amino acids formed into the 16 basic proteins for life, which requires:
(How the amino acids overcame the 1/4,5 quadrillion odds to form the first protein.
How they then overcame those odds countlessly more times to form all the other proteins.
How they did all of this at once so as not to poison the life that would result.)
How all these proteins arranged into the various organelles needed to form a working cell.
How every single one of the processes just described happened at virtually the same time so as not to poison the life that would result with any leftover amino acids and proteins.
How this cell survived the environment that would poison it.

To your final statement:
That was a time analogy to show the astronomical odds.

[whizzball1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqXbKIeSAw woo

[Etcetera]

So my school is on fire.

[Valiance]

[Valiance]

Etcetera said
So my school is on fire.

Wait, really?

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
So my school is on fire.

wait what

[Etcetera]

Valiance said
Wait, really?

Yeah. We have an outdoor campus, so it was only one of our many buildings that caught fire.

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
Yeah. We have an outdoor campus, so it was only one of our many buildings that caught fire.

Oh, okay then.

[Etcetera]

whizzball1 said
Oh, okay then.

Probably because that was a... heated debate. (Yes, I set my school on fire just to make that pun (jk)).

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
Probably because that was a... heated debate. (Yes, I set my school on fire just to make that pun (jk)).

lel

[Etcetera]

whizzball1 said
lel

I think someone was probably smoking in the bathroom and caught the trash can on fire or something.

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
I think someone was probably smoking in the bathroom and caught the trash can on fire or something.

Eugh.

[whizzball1]

Also, this has got to be my smoothest picture ever:

I learned a new technique for making smooth curves recently, and my legs look better than ever.

[Etcetera]

whizzball1 said
Eugh.

Smoking is gross and terrible for you.

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
Smoking is gross and terrible for you.

Definitely.

[Etcetera]

whizzball1 said
Also, this has got to be my smoothest picture ever:I learned a new technique for making smooth curves recently, and my legs look better than ever.

That pony must have cancer.

[whizzball1]

Etcetera said
That pony must have cancer.

That's just the outlines. I haven't done the mane, tail, colours, or eyes yet.

[Etcetera]

whizzball1 said
That's just the outlines. I haven't done the mane, tail, colours, or eyes yet.

So until you do, it has cancer.