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To: impactplayer

Those of us that work with very large numbers understand how it is not even possible for random changes to DNA to create where we are now. A human DNA strand is estimated to be about 3.2 billion base pairs. That represents a number of (2)^3,000,000,000.

Compare that to the estimated number of atoms in the universe (10)^81


22 posted on 02/22/2016 11:09:30 AM PST by taxcontrol ( The GOPe treats the conservative base like slaves by taking their votes and refuses to pay)
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To: taxcontrol

I actually started working on a paper about that. Short version: if every nanometer of the Earth’s biosphere had a strand of DNA of the proper length in it, and every stand underwent one mutation per nanosecond, the time it would take for there to be a 1% chance of arriving at a viable human DNA strand is many septillions (or more) of times longer than the universe has existed.


33 posted on 02/22/2016 11:24:13 AM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullete)
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