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May 17, 2023Liked by Dr Ferdinand Santos III

Stephen C. Meyer, in his book "Signature In The Cell" demonstrates that the odds of even ONE SIMPLE protein, say, one consisting of 350 amino acids (whereas a complex one can have over 1500!) self-assembling by accident outweighs the probabilistic resources of the entire universe. This means that if every slime pool on every planet in the universe was trying its best to make ONE SIMPLE protein it would never happen.

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Great point and entirely valid. Even worse in nature given that amino acids, along with DNA, RNA are extremely unstable. No chance at a random formation of anything. I have never understood why people have such fervent faith in 19th century philosophies (warming comes from a late 19th c belief in the unlimted powers of Co2...)

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