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Originally Posted by BurgyK
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Complexity arose with time. In my opinion it started with a piece of self replicating rna and got more complex from there.
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Ha!
The RNA molecule is con- structed of smaller molecules called nu- cleotides. A nucleotide is a different mol- ecule from an amino acid and is only slightly more complex. Shapiro says that “no nucleotides of any kind have been re- ported as products of spark-discharge ex- periments or in studies of meteorites.”He further states that the probability of a self-replicating RNA molecule random- ly assembling from a pool of chemical building blocks “is so vanishingly small that its happening even once anywhere in the visible universe would count as a piece of exceptional good luck.