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To: ElectricStrawberry; Behemoth the Cat

You are both a bit math challenged and possibly have done little if any computer code in your lives right?

Slight changes in any [DNA] code will not cause it to morph into a new kind or life-form. Even with trillions of years the math is not there to support the number of changes needed with even just 1% change in the DNA. Not too mention that most code will break when you keep introducing change.


35 posted on 11/12/2009 9:50:51 AM PST by BrandtMichaels
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To: BrandtMichaels
Since you are asking... I have a PhD in physical chemistry, and I develop probabilistic algorithms for de novo design of proteins. They work and they do what they are supposed to do, so I have a pretty food feel what can be achieved by algorithms driven by random input. Or let me put it differently: my opinions pertaining to math and probability are NOT based on what I have heard at Sunday school, or read from some atheist blog. As for the merit of your question: yes, the math is there.
46 posted on 11/12/2009 10:06:08 AM PST by Behemoth the Cat
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To: BrandtMichaels
Yeah...I only made it to Calc 2...so "challenged" I am...

Gonna ask for my science credentials again?

Even with trillions of years the math is not there to support the number of changes needed with even just 1% change in the DNA.

Baseless statement that presupposes the DNA in all genomes is as extensive as the current organism with the most DNA basepairs...in addition to extremely low mutation rates never before seen in an organism.

....but talk about "math challenged"....the human genome is about 3,000,000,000 base pairs...the human DNA mutation rate is about 100-200 mutations per generation...call it 100. Let's see.....1 trillion years.....estimate a generation at say 20 years.....makes it 50 billion generations.

50 billion generations times 100 mutations/generation is 5 trillion mutations.....or about a 1667% change in the genome over 1 trillion years.

You have exactly ZERO standing in calling other "math challenged"....but I'll await the next ignorant comment.

50 posted on 11/12/2009 10:21:05 AM PST by ElectricStrawberry (Didja know that Man walked with 100+ species of large meat eating dinos within the last 4,351 years?)
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