RE: Question About Creationists
May 22, 2012 at 12:31 am
(This post was last modified: May 22, 2012 at 1:05 am by Anomalocaris.)
Trait is whatever specific thing your experiment is design to examine, how can you be so utterly ignorant about experimental science and still have the gull to highlight parts of your post as if you could possibly have anything worthwhile to say about it?
In this case the trait being examined is the degree of difference in the sequencing of base pairs between the analogous sections of DNA of humans, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.
If a difference of even just a few percentage over 1% is diffused amongst 3 billion pairs, the probability that 53 random but analogous segments of DNA totaling over 20000 pairs would exhibit statistical difference of only 1% is infinitesimal. The notion that the overall difference between the 3 billion pairs of these 4 animals is very close to 1 % can be asserted with very high level of confidence.
When scientists say "confidence", they have in mind a degree of certainty far more concrete, and assessment of caveats far more precise, and a foundation for rigorous understanding far more firm, than anything any faith head could ever grasp.
In this case the trait being examined is the degree of difference in the sequencing of base pairs between the analogous sections of DNA of humans, chimps, gorillas, and orangutans.
If a difference of even just a few percentage over 1% is diffused amongst 3 billion pairs, the probability that 53 random but analogous segments of DNA totaling over 20000 pairs would exhibit statistical difference of only 1% is infinitesimal. The notion that the overall difference between the 3 billion pairs of these 4 animals is very close to 1 % can be asserted with very high level of confidence.
When scientists say "confidence", they have in mind a degree of certainty far more concrete, and assessment of caveats far more precise, and a foundation for rigorous understanding far more firm, than anything any faith head could ever grasp.
