[bigbob]

Must be great news for people who don’t understand Darwinism, or who look to Yale computer geeks for life philosophy.

[Mrs. Don-o]

It's not "life philosophy." It's the mathematical impossibility of a random mutation producing a useful protein. It has never been observed to happen.

"Observation" is what science is founded on. Not "life philosophy."

DNA is an information system. (That's where Gelernter's computer expertise comes in.) You can't, by randomly destroying pieces of it, create new information.

Of course, a proper scientist never says never. Gelernter modestly says the chances of a random mutation producing a stable protein that performs some useful function, are 1 in 10⁷⁴ --- which is no different, in practice, from saying that they are zero.

(I'm quoting this from memory. Ballpark. It might have been 1 in 10⁷⁷.)

Anyway, forget theology, says (non-theist) Gelernter. Do the math.