0:01 unintentionally The Atheist scientist
0:04 Carl San evidence
0:05 God Carl Edward San 1934 to 1996 was an
0:10 American astrophysicist cosmologist
0:12 educator author and science Communicator
0:15 he is known for his work in exoplanet
0:17 research the search for extraterrestrial
0:18 intelligence and for his popularization
0:20 of science through television books and
0:22 lectures his works and ideas continue to
0:25 inspire people around the world to
0:26 explore the cosmos seek knowledge an
0:28 advocate for critical thinking on
0:30 several occasions KL San has addressed
0:32 the possibility of receiving messages
0:33 from outer space as concrete proof of
0:35 the existence of extraterrestrial life
0:38 his emphasis was on the complexity of
0:39 the information that would be necessary
0:40 for such communication transcending the
0:42 capacities we know of non-biological
0:44 communication for San creating a
0:46 language that can be understood by
0:48 different civilizations with different
0:49 evolutions and knowledge would be an
0:50 immense challenge the message would need
0:52 to contain Universal elements such as
0:54 mathematics and logic to be decoded he
0:57 concludes that if one day we receive the
0:59 following message from space hey is
1:01 there anyone there it would be concrete
1:03 proof of the existence of
1:04 extraterrestrial life because in this
1:06 simple sentence there is a lot of
1:07 information complexity and specificity
1:09 that would never be the result of the
1:10 case well I fully agree with Sean chance
1:13 cannot generate information and
1:15 specificity now if we go to Nature will
1:17 we find some sentence with information
1:19 and complexity to the point of
1:20 concluding that there was Intelligence
1:21 that produced it the simple and
1:23 straightforward answer is yes not just a
1:26 sentence more information that exceeds 6
1:28 billion bits that is much more more than
1:30 an entire collection of an
1:31 encyclopedia what am I talking about
1:34 from the basic unit of a living being
1:36 the cell the amount of information
1:38 contained in a cell is a fascinating and
1:40 complex topic that unites all the
1:41 Sciences chemistry biology physics
1:43 information Theory and many others DNA
1:47 the fundamental molecule of life is the
1:48 main source of information within a cell
1:51 it is composed of a sequence of
1:52 Neutrogena bases A9 guanine cine and
1:55 thyine that like a code stores the
1:57 instructions for the construction and
1:58 functioning of an organism
2:00 this DNA sequence is not just a set of
2:02 letters but rather a detailed manual
2:03 that determines the production of
2:04 proteins molecules essential for Life
2:07 proteins perform several functions such
2:09 as building cell structures catalyzing
2:11 biochemical reactions and transporting
2:14 molecules it is estimated that the human
2:16 genome composed of about 3 billion base
2:18 pairs contains approximately 6 billion
2:20 bits of information however this basic
2:23 quantification does not take into
2:24 account the complex organization and
2:25 context of DNA which further amplify its
2:28 informational value the this information
2:30 from a cell goes beyond quantifying in
2:32 bits it manifests itself in the cell's
2:34 ability to self-replicate adapt to the
2:36 environment communicate with other cells
2:38 and perform complex functions such as
2:39 cell division cell differentiation and
2:41 response to stimuli well in the face of
2:44 KL San's challenge that a single
2:46 sentence cannot be the work of chance we
2:47 do not hesitate to conclude that chance
2:49 as materialist atheists want could never
2:51 produce such information that a single
2:53 cell brings the simple clear and
2:55 objective conclusion is an intelligence
2:57 generated all this information now now
3:00 it cannot be a simple intelligence to
3:01 generate such an amount of information
3:03 it must necessarily be a mind with
3:04 infinite intelligence to stick to so
3:05 much specificity this intelligence we
3:08 humans call God
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