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To: Southack
For probability calculations, in fact, the chances of getting a final long (unaided) sequence correct...

What do you mean by "correct"? Are you asserting that if evolution were rerun, it would have to arrive at the current state to be considered correct? How do you determine or define correctness?

604 posted on 01/23/2005 1:06:21 PM PST by js1138
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To: js1138
"How do you determine or define correctness?"

If the DNA sequence can form viable life, then it is correct for the purposes of the math under discussion. The optimistic range of correct values is discussed, of course, on the link that I provided.

605 posted on 01/23/2005 1:09:04 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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