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Bah. This is the same argument that Intelligent Design advocates put forward. It's nonsense. The question isn't how likely it is that this specific sequence co
by webmaven 5y ago
Bah. This is the same argument that Intelligent Design advocates put forward. It's nonsense.
The question isn't how likely it is that this specific sequence coincidentally evolved naturally to match a patented sequence, but how likely it is for any short patented or otherwise "unnatural" sequence to have evolved naturally.
Given the size of the genome and all the patented sequences in existence, it is virtually certain that some sequences will coincidentally match. You would actually have to go to a lot of deliberate effort to avoid those coincidences.