Pollux
Member Posts: 303 Joined: 11-13-2011
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Message 111 of 365 (651476)
02-07-2012 5:10 PM
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Chuck's item 5
Fred Hoyle calculated the chance of spontaneously assembling 2000 proteins, of 200 amino acids each, at 1 in 10 to power of 40,000.
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Pollux
Member Posts: 303 Joined: 11-13-2011
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Message 123 of 365 (651549)
02-08-2012 7:32 AM
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Hoyle's calculation.
I should have said more in my previous post, which was to show that there was a scientist who made a calculation similar to the one Chuck referred to.
For my part, Subbie, I am always ready to learn. I have been on a path with many similarities to Merle Hertzler, though I have not hosted a web site(!) I have gone from YEC to accepting long age for Earth and life, thanks in part to Zendeist's Correlations thread and other threads, and should call myself agnostic. I am currently working my way through Merle's site.
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Pollux
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Message 129 of 365 (651628)
02-08-2012 3:52 PM
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Hoyle's calculation
Relax, Guys. I'm not trying to defend the calculation. My reply was prompted by Percy saying no scientist had produced such a calculation and was an attempt to show the origin of it. I recalled the figure from way back, and a little search led me to G Korthof's site where he stated Robert Shapiro mentioned Hoyle's figures in "Origins. A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth" Hoyle's application of his calculation to the assembly of proteins seems to have transmogrified in YEC eyes to the odds of life forming.
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