"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.
So you rely on Tim Minchin, beat poet, for your "science"?
“If we need an atheist for a debate, we go to the philosophy department. The physics department isn’t much use.” - –Robert Griffiths, winner of the Heinemann Prize in mathematical physics.
“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die…..” – Max Planck
Never was this truer than in the subject of Darwinism.
The Insuperable Statistics of Naturalistic Polypeptide Synthesis
Titin is the largest protein in the human body. It consists of 38,138 amino acid residues in a precise sequence. The first naturalistic synthesis, whether stepwise or in one single, continuous process, consisted of “selecting” 1 out of 20 amino acids which make up humans, 38,138 times in succession, or 1/20 to the 38,138th power. This is equal to 1 in 10 to the 49,618th power. The pretense of claiming that “sections” of any protein were “assembled” overlooks the unassailable fact that any “section,” however small, had to be assembled under the same statistical constraints. Whether one does the computations in one step or 1,000 steps, the figures are beyond dispute. They get a great deal worse, in fact.
Only Levorotary (left-handed) amino acids were used, not Dextrorotary (right-handed) amino acids, so 1 in 10 to the 49,618th power has to be multiplied by 1/2 to the 38,138th power or 1 in 10 to the 11,480th power. One more time for all consecutive peptide bonds, which are equally probable as the random formation of non-peptide bonds, thus 1/2 to the 38,138th power. The product of these three essential elements of original Titin synthesis is 1 chance in 10 to the 72,578th power (not counting whatever calculation is appropriate for the precise folding of the chain).
Finally, “selection,” that magic word Darwin so popularized, demands that at each successive step, there must be some advantage conferred, otherwise the random mutation cannot prevail and multiply. No one has ever proposed any original synthesis with breakdowns of thousands of intermediaries and each of their “selective” advantages.
Titin is only one of more than 20,000 polypeptides (proteins and enzymes) in the human body.
Pseudoscientific sophisticates claim that large proteins were “assembled” from smaller component blocks. Sorry, that does not obviate the requisite statistics, it attempts to wave them away. Every smaller component still was the result of arbitrary picking of the correct amino acid out of 20 different possibilities, in L form, with a peptide bond, and precise folding.
As a means of comparing a number as enormous as 20 to the 38,138th power, consider that the number of fundamental particles in the universe is approximately 10 to the 80th.
In 1943, the distinguished French mathematician Émile Borel stated that “events with a sufficiently small probability never occur” (Institute of Mathematical Statistics).
Dr. Borel chose a fairly safe number, 10 to the minus 50.
Ten to the 50th marbles1 cm in diameter would fill 923,400,000,000,000,000,000,000 spheres the size of earth. This is 923,400 billion billion.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge. – Thomas Edison
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