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When Improbabilities Become Exponentially Improbable

The first insight I had into the nonsensical nature of the random mutation (RM) part of the RM plus natural selection (NS) hypothesis came through my mathematical studies and experience in software engineering. See here for some probabilistic calculations about the most simple of all computer programs.

Of course, Darwinists always ask, How can you know that RM+NS can’t account for all of life? The answer is simple, and it’s called probabilistic combinatorics.

The underlying biochemical and information-driven functions of living systems are tightly integrated and controlled by an unimaginably complex, sophisticated, fault-tolerant, self-repairing, self-replicating computer program. Components of such a system cannot be altered to produce significant innovation without the simultaneous, coordinated alteration of the components with which they interact. This is what software engineers do, not copying errors.

This is a deafening cry of design.

A microbe did not mysteriously mutate into Mozart and his music, and most people, thankfully, are smart enough to figure out that this is a silly idea.

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63 Responses to When Improbabilities Become Exponentially Improbable

  1. Salvador: “I was especially eager to hear what you had to say about the book given your background in science from Cornell.”

    I’m not the person you are pointing to. I hold a PhD in Electronics and Computer science and I have never studied at Cornell.

  2. John Davison,

    “Is not all of mathematics natural?”

    Theoretically. But in practice, I’ve found Numerical Analysis particularly unnatural. Or at least awkward.

  3. 63

    I am sure there is plenty ofphony math out there.

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