[anguish]

the equations that I gave to you require *you* to plug in values

And here I thought you had already done it and found that abiogenesis was impossible. Surely that must mean that you know how many basepairs are required for a self-replicating entity, and how many such configurations there are.

[Southack]

"And here I thought you had already done it and found that abiogenesis was impossible."

It's axiomatic that abiogenesis occured; we're here.

But did it occur due to unaided "natural" processes, or was there some form of "aid" involved?

For that, we look at the math.

[narby]

I haven't even looked at his "math", If it's what I think it is, radomly trying to find a specific sequence, that's not even the correct way to approach the problem of abiogenesis. It's a wildly parallel process, and doesn't not have a specific sequence goal to ignite abiogenesis. All it has to be is anything that can self reproduce and mutate, and that launches Evolution.

Which Sadsack doesn't even understand.