(April 1, 2016 at 5:40 pm)Rhythm Wrote: You'll get an acceptable sequence often, regardless of it's individual likelihood. Is an acceptable sequence not a functional sequence? Then whats all this probability shit about....?
With the card example, the probability is small but reasonable. It is probably one in a few thousand (I don't feel like doing the math, although I would if that would if you want). That is low, but not that unlikely.
However, with the proteins, the probability ended up being one in 7.89 x 10^131, which is very near the total events that could have happened since the start of the universe. In other words; it is so unlikely that I'm not going to put my faith in it.
