(April 20, 2012 at 10:59 pm)Abishalom Wrote: The point is that the amount and kinds of mutations that are required to prove that a single cell organism turned into a 50 trillion celled organism is mathematically improbable even with the alleged 4.5 billion years that this supposedly took place.First of all you cannot disprove something just by stating it is improbable. If you throw a six sided di and it lands on the six, six times in a row, there is nothing improbable about it at all. Even with a chance of only .00001 it will still happen, in fact with enough throws it will happen all the time.
And the chance of a beneficial mutation occurring goes up drastically when you throw natural selection into the equation because all the other mutations are thrown out the window and only the beneficial ones are kept. It would be like throwing a million dice into the air and less than 1/8 of them land on 4. All the other di don't survive and are thrown out. Now When you throw the di again what are the chances of it landing on a 4. 1.0. 100 percent. In reality it is much more complicated but this is how it happens. A change that neither helps nor harms will have no effect on this process and will stay in the system until some other mutation pops up which can use it.