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To: Cicero
It is sometimes said that, given enough time, a room full of monkeys could create all the works of Shakespeare. Wrong.

Strawman. Dispense with the probability-from-the-assumption-of-an-unbiased-distribution argument already. It is not applicable. Furthermore, you clearly do not have much of an idea of how just how severely strong biases in the phase space cut into the "improbability" that you are asserting for some arbitrary molecular construct. All of which is trivially verifiable with elementary analytical chemistry.

56 posted on 12/28/2005 4:03:56 PM PST by tortoise (All these moments lost in time, like tears in the rain.)
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To: tortoise
It is sometimes said that, given enough time, a room full of monkeys could create all the works of Shakespeare. Wrong.

Strawman. Dispense with the probability-from-the-assumption-of-an-unbiased-distribution argument already. It is not applicable. Furthermore, you clearly do not have much of an idea of how just how severely strong biases in the phase space cut into the "improbability" that you are asserting for some arbitrary molecular construct. All of which is trivially verifiable with elementary analytical chemistry.

Are you trying to say that evolution is not abiogenesis?

In other words, the creationist would likely reply with the punchline to that old joke, "No. Get your OWN dirt."

BTW, what on earth are you referring to (specifically) by "strong biases in the phase space" ?? Steric hindrance? "Handedness?" You're not being quite specific enough, increasing the odds that you and the other poster will be talking past one another.

Cheers!

...not too much longer on this thread, I've gotta go see "CATS" down at ASU...

916 posted on 12/30/2005 4:14:12 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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