To: Tribune7
Fred Hoyle's enzyme probability makes for flashy copy, but it isn't a valid calculation of the chemical synthesis. Every time I see one of this ridiculous probabilities I have to laugh; if these calculations were valid, complex industrial chemical synthesis would be impossible. It isn't like we manufacture complex chemicals by welding molecules together against their will. We do it by throwing a bunch of simple chemical building blocks into a vessel, let them do their thing, and filter the results for the product we want. Lots of "impossible" (using your math) chemicals are made this way in large quantities. Only very rarely are the environments in our reactor vessels ones that aren't found in nature.
To: tortoise
First, Hoyle is not talking about the spontaneous creation of an enzyme. He is talking about the spontaneous creation of 2000 enzymes in a particular sequence.
Second, can you explain the Law of Biogenesis?
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