Information for life?

What do you mean "original information for life"?

 

Depend how far you want to go back.

You could read this physics post article
http://physicspost.com/articles.php?articleId=175 [Broken]

 

The human genome consists of about 3 billion basepairs. Only a very small fraction of that (I have heard 2%) actually codes for genes. There is a lot of room for experimentation. If a combination of bases works, it is conserved through evolution. Slowly but steadily the amount of information is accumulated in the genome to the book we now have.

 

How did life first form? (abiogenesis or biogenesis)
There is no strong (well evidenced), widely accepted scientific theory for that. So I don't think anyone will be able to tell you with 100% confidence how the first self replicating molecule came to be.

But I suppose at its most basic, the information comes from the laws of physics and chemistry. Those laws are what dictate how self replicating molecules work. The parent molecule itself is the blueprint (information) for the daughter molecule. The types and atoms within, and the structure of, the molecule are associated with certain chemical reactions.

Once you have a self-replicating molecule, then natural selection and mutation can take over and transform that molecule...which in Earth's history turned out to be DNA.

"Information" need not be some conscious aspect of the universe. For example, we can tell much about the characteristics of a star merely by examining that point of light in the sky. There is much information in that point of light (e.g., intensity, apparent motion, EM spectrum, etc.) even though it is non-living.

 

Re: Information for life???

Creation doesn't explain anything about where the information came from. How did God get the information?

 

I can almose feel your frustration, but I don't think there is an answer for this question.

Yes I believe that God made it. So that creates a problem in explaining it. Unfortunatly the Bible is not a scientific manual.

When you have a clay dish in your hand there are two ways to determine how it was made. First watch the potter make it, the second is to study the dish.

in respect to life we don't have the option of watching God create, we only have the creation to study and understand. This is the essence of science isn't it - understanding what's already there.

 

Your answer may be in the following thread?

https://www.physicsforums.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8034

 

That is the exact same question with which the other thread started. If you like to know more after looking through it you are free to ask.

 

So which theory do you think is interesting?

As was said in the thread I like the idea of hydrothermal vents, but lots of hypothesis still need to be tested in order to make more accurate statements on biogenesis.