<< Thank you for taking up the gauntlet, Brian. Please check page 255 in
Information Theory and Molecular Biology by H.P. Yockey and read 2.3 x
10^-75.>>
<< There is my part of the bargain. May I now read yours (> I'll concede
to you that evolution is impossible.)?
>>
Could you at least make an attempt to meet Brian's bet ? He did not ask for a quote of the number. We all know the origin of the quote. He is interested in seeing how this quote supports your ideas that evolution is impossible.
Brian refered to "The formation of a protein by evolutionary means"
Is that what Yockey showed ?
Could you explain Yockey's argument to us ?
Yockey's argument is erroneous in many aspects. Not in the least the assumption that only one protein could do the work, that the protein had only one chance and that the protein had to be fully formed in one step. Nothing about 'evolutionary means' in here.
Glenn Morton wrote :
In 1977 Yockey calculated that there were 10^61 different sequences which could perform
the function of cytochrome c. (Yockey, "A Calculation of the Probability of Spontaneous Biogenesis by Information Theory," Journal of Theoretical Biology, 67(1977):377-398). By 1992 new discoveries had increased that number to 10^93 different protein sequences which perform the specific
function of cytochrome c. (Yockey Information Theory and Molecular
Biology, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992), p. 59) "
Brian Harper commented on earlier remarks of yours
"Also, if you think Yockey's results are so devasting to
evolution then how can you explain the fact that Yockey is an
evolutionist?
Since you have obviously read section 10.9.2 of his book,
did you notice the following sentence on page 287?
"I showed that one is justified in believing that life
originated on Earth (and did not come from outer space,
section 10.8) several to many times in the period between
4.0x10^6 and 3.8x10^6 years ago."-- Hubert Yockey"
Perhaps you should have read the book ?