Thank you for considering my post. I have revised it to eliminate the reference and replace it with a general statement of my own. That should eliminate this issue and still allow the conversation to continue. Here is the revised post:
Short question or statement: There is not enough time available in the acknowledged age of the earth for the human genome to have formed. The hypothesis is that the math doesn’t work for DNA to have developed because the earth isn’t old enough.
Basis:
1. The acknowledged age of the earth is about 4.5 billion years, with the simplest life forms arriving only 2 billion years ago.
2. The human genome has approximately 3 billion base pairs of DNA arranged into 46 chromosomes.
3. Evolutionary theory holds that the human genome developed through a series of DNA replication errors.
4. The base pairs are the building blocks of DNA. If I follow evolutionary theory correctly, if there are 3 billion base pairs then it took 3 billion replication errors to arrive at the current DNA structure ( unless multiple simultaneous positive replication errors occurred).
5. If there was a successful DNA replication error each generation then it would take 3 billion reproductive generations to arrive where we are today.
Problems:
a. 3 billion generations would take 60 billion years if each female reproduced at the age of 20.
b. It is stated that life on earth is only 2 billion years old.
c. It would take longer if any of the errors were not advantageous. Most replication errors are not advantageous.
d. This assumes that each and every mutation was the exact necessary mutation needed in the right order. Each block of the genome has to be built in the right order. ( You don’t need the lens of the eye before the optic nerve exists for example).
e. It also assumes that each generation got the opportunity to successfully reproduce and didn’t die first or something.
f. The replication error of a single base pair out of the 3 billion pairs can result in a genetically transmitted disease. We need 3 billion positive consecutive errors with no negative errors along the way, or it would take even longer.
g. There is no provision at all here for natural selection because that would exponentially add much more time.
6. I am sure this has been studied and discussed — can you point me to literature or web sites where I can read about this issue?
Edited by Adminnemooseus, : Put in more blank lines.