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dmallind

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9. Ah the good old jumbo jet crap from Hoyle
Tue Sep 4, 2012, 12:34 PM
Sep 2012

(the same Hoyle who didn't even believe in an expanding universe, red shift be damned)

And it makes perfect sense.

As long as you ignore chemistry. And scale. And time.

A more accurate analogy using the same concepts would be to imagine untold trillions upon trillions of trillions of junkyards (molecules are very small and the earth is very large) in constant tornados for a billion years AND then imagine that a jumbo jet wheel will grab onto and hold a tire but reject a seat cover, which would grab onto and hold a seat but reject a flap, which would grab onto and hold a hinge but reject a windshield, which would....... and so on.

Now work out how unlikely it is that a jumbo jet gets assembled somewhere in that billion years or so before life emerged. It only happens once after all, sincle unlike 747s life is self-replicating.

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