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You might find the work of David Gelernter (computer scientist) interesting. He's not a creationist, but he has abandoned the theory of evolution. > Suppose, t
by chana_masala 5y ago
You might find the work of David Gelernter (computer scientist) interesting. He's not a creationist, but he has abandoned the theory of evolution.
> Suppose, then, that every bacterium that has ever lived contributes one mutation before its demise to the history of life. This is a generous assumption; most bacteria pass on their genetic information unchanged, unmutated. Mutations are the exception. In any case, there have evidently been, in the whole history of life, around 10^40 bacteria—yielding around 10^40 mutations under Axe’s assumptions. That is a very large number of chances at any game. But given that the odds each time are 1 to 10^77 against, it is not large enough. The odds against blind Darwinian chance having turned up even one mutation with the potential to push evolution forward are 10^40x(1/10^77)—10^40 tries, where your odds of success each time are 1 in 10^77—which equals 1 in 10^37. In practical terms, those odds are still zero. Zero odds of producing a single promising mutation in the whole history of life.
https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/ https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/
- jagger27 5y agoI really regret spending time reading this drivel.
- yyx 5y agoIt took 4 billion years to get to this point. Plenty of time.
- chana_masala 5y agoIf you read the full review, it's not at all.
- dboreham 5y agoBut if you add space travel...
- yellow_postit 5y agoThis is Intelligent Design dressed up in hand wavy math that builds on misrepresentation of cited studies and the fossil record. Read with a strong dose of skepticism.
- chana_masala 5y agoCan you expand on the misrepresentation of studies and fossil record?
- chana_masala 5y agoThe book is about Intelligent Design, but the reviewer (Gelernter) as far as I understand is only claiming that the theory of evolution doesn't hold. He is neither a creationist or proponent of ID
- ufo 5y agoBy this logic, artificial selection is also impossible and therefore pugs, tomatoes, and fancy pigeons cannot exist.
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