RLG100Y1 Chapter : notes on the genesis

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10 Oct 2011

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The genesis is a very interesting book to apprehend. Even the scripture it"s self is quite unique. The genesis talks about allot of things that are considered important aspects throughout the book. For example in the beginning the genesis talks about how god created the universe in seven days and on the seventh day god rested after he ended his work. After all he is the almighty god, what reason would he have to do such a thing. As the reading progresses further, there are several other aspects that are rather interesting, such as the death of abel. It is only human nature to feel an emotion of jealousy towards another. Thus this emotion led to a murder committed by cain who was the brother of abel.

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I have been thinking a little about the origins of life, and wasfurther inspired by this question: How did the first selfreplicating organism come into existence?

I can accept that we don't quite know exactly how, but has anylarge-scale/long-term simulation been carried out?

There have been experiments but they seem to have been on asmall scale. As an example, according to the Abiogenesis page onWikipedia, some experiment which spontaneously formed peptidestructures was carried out by Sidney Fox during the 50s and60s.

What would be really interesting is if there had been someexperiments or simulations carried out during a very long time,plausibly allowing for extremely low-probability structures toform. I doesn't matter whether this simulation/experiment has beencarried out in a lab or as a computer simulation. There is ofcourse the interesting but old "Conway's Game of Life" simulation,but according to my search efforts nobody has really tested it on avery large scale and in 3D.

Again, I'm looking for something extensive, like a decades-longsingle lab experiment or a simulation that has been run foryears.

Question 1

Evolutionary algorithms are used:

In engineering, to arrive at solutions by going through many permutations of possible solutions and allowing them to evolve.

A genetic feature of complex organisms.

A process undergone by the human brain, which is similar to evolution by natural selection.

Another term used for a computer algorithm in general.

Question 2

Human literature and languages can be studied using methods similar to those used for constructing phylogenies because:

There is no other way of studying these things.

Languages evolve roughly along the lines of species, with mutations (changes in words and pronunciation), descent with modification (languages becoming more different along the way), and branching of languages (languages giving rise to other languages that are similar to them).

Because literature and languages are constructed by organisms (human beings), so what applies to one must apply to the other.