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To: general_re

The problem is, you don't know what you'd need to know to make these sorts of calculations meaningful - nobody does. And your estimates are basically pulled straight out of your hat. Of the vast ocean of possible chains, you haven't got a clue how many of them are viable self-replicators, nor do you have any idea what a real minimum length for a viable self-replicator might be. There exist self-replicating polypeptides that are a mere 32 amino acids in length, so how on earth can you justify setting a minimum viable length of 29,000,000 nucleotides? You can't, and it's as simple as that.


longshadow sent me over here to see this. You have done quite well, certainly better than I could. The only difference is that i would have said "why bother"?

Let him stir the pot; it won't make a bit of difference. For the reasonable creationoids out there, they must be thinking exactly what the "reasonable" democrats are now thinking about their party leader.


184 posted on 02/15/2005 12:26:54 PM PST by furball4paws (It's not the cough that carried him off - it's the coffin they carried him off in (O. Nash -I think))
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To: furball4paws

"Why bother?" may be the only sensible answer ;)


188 posted on 02/15/2005 12:42:50 PM PST by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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