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To: Right Wing Professor; Tribune7
Jeepers, I don't know why this is so difficult. At post 817 I said:

Yockey used Shannon entropy to examine the information content of a small protein, cytochrome c and concluded that even it could not have arisen by happenstance; and the minimum information content of a simplest organism is much larger than the information content of cytochrome c.

The "it" in the above sentence is information content.

To date, I have found only one plausible speculation for the rise of information content via abiogenesis - and that was by Rocha. His speculation requires a toggling back and forth between states (autonomous and catalytic).

If you have a competing speculation, please let us know!

860 posted on 12/01/2003 2:27:26 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
Jeepers, I don't know why this is so difficult

Me neither.

At post 817 I said: Yockey used Shannon entropy to examine the information content of a small protein, cytochrome c and concluded that even it could not have arisen by happenstance; and the minimum information content of a simplest organism is much larger than the information content of cytochrome c.

No one is claiming it arose by happenstance. Straw man.

871 posted on 12/01/2003 7:06:03 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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