'The brain's tissue includes some 1.000.000.000.000.000.000.000 protein molecules'. ('The Tape Recorder in Your Brain', Coronet, 1958, Page 57).
'What about the human brain? It's a legitimate computer system, 1.000 times faster than a Cray Super Computer and with more connections than all the computers, phone systems and electronic appliances on the entire planet'. (Eastman and Missler, 'The Creator Beyond Time and Space').
'There are 10.000.000.000 nerve cells in the brain. Each of the 10.000.000.000 cells sprouts between 10.000 and 100.000 fibers to contact other nerve cells in the brain, creating approximately 1.000.000.000.000.000 connections. Take half of the United States, which is 1 million square miles, and imagine it being covered by forest, with 10.000 trees per square mile. On each of the 10.000 trees, which are on each of the one million square miles, there are 100.000 leaves. That's how many connections are crammed inside your brain. They form an incredibly intricate network system that has no parallel in the industrial world'. (Michael Denton, 'Evolution, A Theory in Crisis', Page 330).
'The information content of the brain expressed in bits is probably comparable to the total number of connections among the neurons about a 100.000.000.000.000 bits. If written out in English, say, that information would fill some twenty million volumes, as many as in the world largest libraries. The equivalent of 20.000.000 books is inside the heads of every one of us. The brain is a very big place in a small space'. (John Polkinghorne, 'One World', London, 1986, Page 57).
'In crude terms, the human brain is a natural computer composed of 10.000.000.000 to 100.000.000.000 neurons, each of which connects to about 10.000 others, and all of which function in parallel. Neuronal systems take about 100 processing steps to perform a complex tasks of vision or speech which would take an electronic computer billions of processing steps'. (Michael Recce & Philip Treleavan, 'Computing from the brain’, New Scientist, Vol. 118, No. 1614, Page 61).
'If memory is so detailed, how can the brain find room for it all? It is estimated that, in a lifetime, a brain can store 1.000.000.000.000.000 units of information. To store so much, the units of storage must be of molecular size. There would be room for nothing more'. (Isaac Asimov, 'Asimov’s New Guide to Science', Page 848).
The brain is without doubt, one of the greatest proofs for God's existence!! Subhan'Allah wallahu Akbar!
'On the earth are signs for those of assured faith, and also in yourselves. Can ye then not see?' (Qur'an 51:20 and 21).
You call this evidence! This thread should be closed because it's bull and we all know that no evidence or proof exists, ditto nana, NOTHING.
This is noting but an arguement from complexity and can be seriously challenged with "climbing mount improbable" debate where u my friend can only see the sheer rock face in front of you and not the gradual slope that lies behind!
Lets's take a cup of tea. Drink most of it - down to perhaps the last mouthful or even the last sip. How big a number do you need to have to describe to me what you have left in your cup? Would the last sip of your tea (I'll use tea here because I don't like coffee) be "astronomical"?
so if we could show you that things were in fact bigger than you thought (more parts for the brain in your model, a bigger hurricane, etc.) maybe you could start to see that life could have happened by chance (and in fact probably did happen that way).
Back to the last sip of water.
How many molecules are there in a rather small form of life, such as a very simple bacteria? That is to say, how many parts are there to be put in place to build the brain you say can't be made by chance.
Sip a little more water but leave just a bit behind. How much is there now?
If you can swirl it around in the cup, you will really have quite a large amount. If it is even just down to a few drops (less than the sip I said to leave behind), that is still quite large. Probably well past "astronomical".
A small shot glass will hold over 30ml, so half of that will be around a "mole" of water (a gram-molecular-weight) or roughly 602,300,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules. If you have only left a few drops in your cup then maybe change the "602" to "10" or so and leave the rest.
Now look at that last sip of tea/water/coffee and try to picture the size of the atoms involved in your mind. (I have trouble here, so I think you will too - they are very small.) The American budget deficit has a long way to go to catch up with numbers like this (but keep electing republican presidents and anything is possible).
Now, let's do the same thing with the duration of "time".
You probably think that "thousands and millions" of years is "astronomical", but note that I just said "and" in that expression. Try changing the "and" to the word "of".
Thousands of millions of years. Repeat that to yourself.
A million years followed by another million years followed by yet another million years (that's three million years), followed by another million years (4) and another (5) and still followed by yet another (6)..... until you get to (2145).
Between 2,145 and 2,146 million years ago there was an interval of time that lasted for one million years. (That is a thousand years followed by another thousand years [2] followed by yet another thousand years [3] and another [4] and so on until a thousand thousands is reached.) This all happens one year at a time. And back around 2,146 million years life had been going on quite happily on this here rock in space for - another thousand million years???
Somewhere back around then, life was approaching the "halfway" point in the story of life on earth, such a very long duration of time ago that your chance of understanding it is about the same as your perception of the size of an atom or a water molecule. And "life" could even be older that the age of this planet, if it was able to survive a few intervals "freeze-dried" in the icy balls we call "comets". In that case, it could have started on Mars a bit earlier than the history of earth would allow, or it may even have been able to jump from one solar system to another as they passed near each other. But I'm also happy with the idea that life did first occur here and the laws of chemistry and such - if you bother to learn them - make that understandable.
Now, back to your question. How many molecules does it take to make a "cell" and how many molecules are there in the average size ocean or even in a tide-pool? If you were to keep trying combinations of atoms every day for a few million years, how many times would you get a plausible combination that could have been "life"? Try thinking about this every time you are about to take the last sip of whatever you are having to drink for the next few years, the come back and tell me that astronomical numbers are a reason not to have allowed life to occur.
