RE: Fundies Will Be Shitting Bricks
May 6, 2011 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2011 at 2:19 pm by lilphil1989.)
(May 5, 2011 at 5:06 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: 20 amino acids
387 proteins for the simplest possible life
10 conserved amino acids on average
∴ chance is 20^–3870 = 10^–3870.log20 = 10^–5035
This is one chance in one followed by over 5000 zeroes. So it would be harder than guessing a correct 5000-digit PIN on the first go!
Is time really ‘the hero of the plot’? No:
10^80 atoms in the universe
10^12 atomic interactions per second
10^18 seconds in the universe, according to the fallacious big bang theory
∴ only 10^110 interactions possible. This is a huge number, but compared with the tiny chance of obtaining the right sequence, it is absurdly small: only 10^–4925.
Firstly, that's a huge underestimation, because it assumes sequential instead of parallel trials.
And the number is irrelevant anyway, because no-one ever claimed that early life spontaneously assembled out of all the constituent amino acids of its constituent proteins.
Please, learn what evolutionary biology actually says, because every argument you have made against it has been an argument against a strawman.
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
