Medicine is neither a theory, nor an idea nor a hypothesis but human activity concerned with maintenance of health and the prevention, alleviation, or cure of disease. You are mixing apples and oranges.
Medicine is based on theories, ideas and hypotheses that change as new discoveries are made. You are just playing word games.
How about this: Evolution is also a human activity that is concerned with understanding how organisms change and adapt to the environment and varying selection pressures and how these processes likely affected life in the past as well.
Finding functional landscape and covering functional landscape once it is found are two completely different things. My numbers are concerned with search for functional landscape.
This makes no sense.
And you still haven't addressed the papers you cited.
They claim the estimated size of the possible sequence space is much smaller than the number you used. They argue that 20
x is a meaningless overestimation of the potential sequence space. They suggest that a more meaningful number should be 2
x or 2
x/3, which, if correct, makes your whole argument moot.
In biology targets are always specific. Ability of the lambda repressor to bind to lambda genome in order to regulate expresion of cI protein is a specific function.
That still misses my point. Your claim is that to go from target A to target B is impossible because the possible space is enormous (a figure opposed by the paper you cite) and the number of trials is 20 orders of magnitude smaller than the proportion of functional sequences. But this proportion of sequences only applies to target A. It does not establish the proportion of function sequences in target B nor does it establish the functional distance from target A to target B. What if target A and target B are only 10 mutations apart? would that be impossible?
Also why does it have to go from target A to target B, and not target C or D or E or F ect. You are drawing the bulls-eye around the target B and claiming it is impossible to start at target A and then hit target B. So, miss target B and hit target Z instead.
You also ignore the modularity of proteins. A protein can be made up of a series of domains. Rearranging those domains or deleting one domain (for example deleting a membrane association domain could allow the protein to function in the cytoplasm or the nucleus and completely change how it functions) or translocation of a domain from one location to another can change function without having to sift through the entire possible sequences.
HBD
Whoever calls me ignorant shares my own opinion. Sorrowfully and tacitly I recognize my ignorance, when I consider how much I lack of what my mind in its craving for knowledge is sighing for... I console myself with the consideration that this belongs to our common nature. - Francesco Petrarca
"Nothing is easier than to persuade people who want to be persuaded and already believe." - another Petrarca gem.
Ignorance is a most formidable opponent rivaled only by arrogance; but when the two join forces, one is all but invincible.