> > > By what methods? I mean, what guides the 'ordering' towards the path of
> complexity
> > > and functionality? What sustains functionality over Eons of time?
Guides? If a thing fails, it's removed. If it succeeds...
> > Put most simply: successful mutations live long enough to reproduce, and pass their
> > (successful) functionality on.
> When I hear the word "Mutation" I can't help but to think of a deformity. But that
> still doesn't explain when/where life started where said reproduction was even
> possible.
"Deformity:" formed differently. So, yeah, that doesn't mean anything; nearly every mutation is a failure, but some don't matter, and rarely one actually makes something better. And that happens all the time, within every organism.
Not knowing a detail (where life started) doesn't affect anything. Science is the quest for learning, not the knowledge itself.
> There's a JUMP between "chemicals" and complex organisms. It's glossed over in the
> hopes that nobody asks such questions.
He didn't gloss over that jump, but he condensed everything to a few minutes. The proteins in your cells can be produced by just getting the right particles together in any environment that dumps energy into them. They are chemicals. They meet up and start copying each other, sometimes substituting different ingredients, because that's how those chemicals react when the environment allows it. That's how your cells work, and that's how they came into being.
"Where" and "when" the whole thing started are bits of trivia, things that might or might not be useful knowledge. The value might be as little as tracing back to the individual plant that the fibers of the first piece of paper came from, or it might be the most important thing ever.
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