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Author Topic:   Intelligent Design vs. Real Science
Wounded King
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Message 19 of 142 (588936)
10-29-2010 8:35 AM
Reply to: Message 18 by dennis780
10-29-2010 8:04 AM


Hoyle's pointless calculation
I'm with you on this one Reveal, but the evolutionists understand the unlikelihood of this, and explain it using mass expanse of time.
No they don't, people familiar with origins of life research realise that the odds of random self assembly of a specific DNA sequence by chance are totally irrelevant, and Hoyle's calculations were not based on DNA self assembling but rather a set of ~400 proteins. No one thinks that a functional DNA coding sequence just spontaneously assembled in an instant from a jumble of nucleotides and certainly not a whole panel of modern functional enzymes.
Even going to the more relevant situation of a functional short ribozyme assembling one would need to factor in more than just the cumulative probability of a specific sequence randomly assembling. Time certainly is an important factor but there are so many essentially unknowable factors involved that almost any such calculation might as well just be made up off the top of ones head.
There are not seven colors in a rainbow. The human eye only has the ability to see seven.
Or rather humans have chosen to arbitrarily classify certain regions of the visible spectrum using 7 terms. Humans can certainly discriminate more than 7 colours, they just won't always agree on what to call them.
TTFN,
WK

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