Carl Sagan died in 1996. Asimov died in 1992, you betcha. You claim both of them believe in the gods? How do you know that?"Almost nothing is known for certain except in pure mathematics." - Carl Sagan
Now I don't necessarily agree that almost nothing is known for certain, BUT Sagan is something of a god to Leftists and atheists. So beginning with his quote, let's just glance at the insuperable statistics of polypeptide synthesis. I've posted on the subject before here and the atheists and Leftists change the subject or make up nonsense.
The original synthesis of each and every protein and enzyme in your body and mine has to be explained by some *scientific* mechanism if you are an acolyte of Darwin. We have 20 different amino acids that make up our bodies. How is the first one selected for a synthesis?
1/20 is its probability. The next one, 1/20. This continues for hundreds or thousands or tens of thousands of iterations.
Titin is a protein in your muscles. It is made up of 33,450 amino acids in a precise sequence.
What is 1/20 to the 33,450th power? It's nil. It was nil tens of thousands of orders of magnitude ago. But it even gets worse. Much worse.
1. There are ~2,000 or more proteins in your body. Two thousand.
2. Proteins form peptide bonds but they also form non-peptide bonds with equal probability.
So what is 1/2 to the 33,450th power for the correct peptide bond?
3. Proteins fold. How do they "know" when and where to fold? It's exceedingly difficult even to know where to assign probability of folding, but it has to be considered, IF you can even get that far.
4. These amino acids are all levorotary, or L forms except for one amino acid. The opposite is dextrorotary, or D form. We're made up of L amino acids.
So once again, 1/2 to the 33,450th power. Just for ONE protein.
"Almost nothing is known for certain except in pure mathematics." - Carl Sagan
I wrote to his publisher asking about dozens of glaring errors in several of his books. Carl wrote back to me ignoring all his errors. He just asked me to buy his newest book. I never bought one! I got them all at the library. What a greedy little man. I sold his letter on eBay for $125 and Isaac Asimov's postcard on eBay for $75. Both of them believe in God today, you betcha.
I might scan both and post them after redacting my personal information.
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