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Proteins: Could They Happen By Chance?
Sunday, July 08, 2007


The odds of an average protein getting the proper sequence by chance is enormous. Let's look at the odds.

Imagine an alphabet with 20 letters. Suppose I made a word from this alphabet that was 400 letters long, and asked you to guess the sequence of letters that make up the word. What would be the odds that you would guess it by chance? The odds would be one to 20 times 20 times 20 times 20......400 times! It would be 1 to 20 to the 400th power. This is the same as one to ten to the 520th power. That is a 1 followed by 520 zeros. The odds are greater that you would win California super lotto 500 times in a row than one protein sequence occurring by chance. We are not even talking about a cell, much less an organ, much less a human body.

In statistics, something that is 10 to the 50th is considered impossible. Thus one protein by chance is highly impossible.

Think of this for a second. If the odds against a protein sequence happening by chance it 10 to the 520th power, the odds that it happened by design is the inverse, 10 to the 520th power in favor of it. Those odds make design infinitely more logical statistically than chance.



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