Self organization origin of life scenarios and information theory.

Abstract The self organizationist scenarios for the origin of life are examined by means of information theory. It is found that self organization must yield only genetic message ensembles of information content much too low to constitute a genome. It is shown that the statistical structure reflected in “the instructions in the amino acids themselves” is an impediment to the generation of genetic information not a source of it. It is concluded that at present there are no scientifically valid origin of life scenarios. Consequently, belief in little green men in outer space is purely religious not scientific.

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