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Originally Posted by Kybosh
This is funny. I used to think the same way but the more I studied chemistry the more the "randomness" didn't quite work (for me anyway). One of the more interesting aspects of nature is that, at a molecular level, it is common for molecules (and by extension larger groups of molecules ie. proteins/enzymes) to be naturally produced as a single mirror image. A simple example of this is your right and left hands are mirror images of one another. Your hands are physically the same but no matter what you do you can't turn your right hand into the left and vice versa. So, in nature only one compound (of a possible two) are naturally produced for all naturally occuring molecules (that can exhibit mirror images anyway) such as amino acids and monosaccharides. This notion is called chirality.
Ok, so why did I bring up that long diatribe? Well, where/what is the origin of chirality? Why does only one mirror image of an amino acid naturally form over the other? There are theories of why this phenomena came about but nothing has been proven. I'm not saying that some omnipotent being is responsible for this phenomena but I don't buy that this happened at random.
The processes of Nature often appear to occur at random but that might just be because we don't yet recognize the pattern. |
Random events do create organized things. We know this, but its not as if we fully understand chirality or many other things.
But because something is not yet understood gives it no special meaning. The illusion of organization in our universe is a result of a lot of chaos, mind you one day we could if we exist that long, understand the total theory of everything and how all things come to exist and the processes in which they work.