1 Corinthians 3:19
"The tiniest known brain, that of the worm C. elegans, is not simple. These facts he sets out raise some very interesting questions.
The worm’s apparent simplicity makes it a favorite lab animal — for example, it was the first animal whose brain was mapped. Researchers have learned that, with less than 400 neurons, it can handle both associative and non-associative learning.
The human body has roughly 30 trillion cells and the human brain only 86 billion.
Perhaps the worm’s brain has roughly the minimum number of neurons any brain must have for simple bodily functions and learning — irrespective of the size of the rest of the body. Equipped with those 400 neurons, the worm can feed, fast, mate, lay eggs, swim in liquids and crawl on solids. In fact, the worms’ “social lives” can become, well, quite complex.
When even simple life forms are complex, the origin of life question arises:
"The tiniest known brain, that of the worm C. elegans, is not simple. These facts he sets out raise some very interesting questions.
The human body has roughly 30 trillion cells and the human brain only 86 billion.
Perhaps the worm’s brain has roughly the minimum number of neurons any brain must have for simple bodily functions and learning — irrespective of the size of the rest of the body. Equipped with those 400 neurons, the worm can feed, fast, mate, lay eggs, swim in liquids and crawl on solids. In fact, the worms’ “social lives” can become, well, quite complex.
When even simple life forms are complex, the origin of life question arises:
Q: Were there ever life forms that were so simple that they could merely self-assemble, as the official doctrine of the origin of life proposes?
Cassell offers several observations that touch on this question:
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One might expect the smallest known brain to have a structure that is either relatively uniform or random. An example of a uniform structure is that found in crystals, which form a symmetrical lattice. A random structure would be expected if the positions of the neurons were not specified, but rather develop through a random process. Contrary to being either uniform or random, the brain does have a complex structure that is specified and repeatable. “Tiniest brain”
Yes, that’s the problem of specified complexity:
"… even though the brain is tiny, it does not have a simple structure.
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Yes, that’s the problem of specified complexity:
In a world where nature, left to itself, produces either uniform order or chaos, we find a level of information-rich order that requires an underlying intelligence.
And in this case, that information-rich order is alive."
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