Stuff like this makes me laugh so hard. Its videos like this that make me mock the Creationist movement, or the Intelligent Design movement. The argument at the beginning is NOT what scientists make. Scientists do not say that matter and energy led to new life. They do say (and I paraphrase) that the early earth was covered (at least partially) by a sea of a liquid (most likely water) with a very large array of organic molecules and other dissolved chemicals and that over a LARGE about of time with the input of energy, more complex groupings of molecules began to form, which over time became the basis for even more complex organic molecules.
Lets do a basic thought experiment.
Assumption 1: The surface area of the ancient earth covered by this solution is similar to that of modern earth. That equals approximately 3.62×10^9 square meters.
Assumption 2: Chemical reactions of interest, and the important random combinations, occur only in the top 2 meters of the ocean surface. This equals 7.24×10^9 cubic meters of solution.
Assumption 3: Chemical reactions of interest occur on the order of 1 per minute per cubic meter. This is absurdly low, but I am being nice. That means 7.62×10^9 reactions occur every minute.
Assumption 4: Complex organic molecules that lead to early single celled life took 1 billion years to form. This means that 5.256×10^5 minutes/year and that means it took 5.265×10^14 minutes for those simple molecules to form. Further, that means that it took over 7.62×10^23 reactions before our target molecules appeared by random chance.
Now, lets compare that to our peanut butter proof. Acccording to the “engineer” we are all performing the same experiment when we open a jar of peanut butter.
1 Jar of Peanut Butter: Approximately 12-18oz. (A jar weighs a little over 1lbs, assume 1.25lbs. average)
US Consumption of Peanut Butter, Annually: 700 million lbs.
Peanut Butter Existence: 1904-present, call it 100years, easy.
Assumption 1: If we assume the US represents 1/4 world consumption, and we assume that consumption at current levels continue unabated all the way back to the begining of Peanut Butter, then 2.8×10^11 lbs of peanut butter have been consumed (or 2.24×10^11 jars of peanut butter). This number is very high, as peanut butter production and consumption was much less in the past.
Assumption 2: Assume each jar of peanut butter exists for approximately 1 year before opening, and assume 1 interesting reaction per jar, per minute. Thats 5.256×10^6 reactions per jar, or 1.18×10^17 reactions over 100 hundred years.
So, 1.18×10^17 versus 7.62×10^23 reactions. The peanut butter experiment has only been running 1.5×10^-8 of the earth experiment. We would need to run the peanut butter experiment for a little while more. Add in the fact that peanut butter is designed to prevent bacterial growth, and that I underestimated the reaction rate in the ancient oceans by a few trillion and you can see this is about the stupidest thing I have ever head in my life.
I can’t believe I even took the time to write this.
