RE: Probability question

Randy Bronson (randy@Techsource.COM)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 13:23:21 -0400 (EDT)

Thanks for the feedback.
You mention non-ramdom processes that led to biogenesis. While I
understand that the laws of chemical bonding would govern how and
which amino acids would join together wouldn't this process still
ultimately be random since many combination of acids(including the
statistically more likely non-functional combinations) could still
form? Or is the non-randomness you mentioned operating in another
way?

Randy

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On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Kevin L. O'Brien wrote:

> Greetings Randy:
>
> In addition to what John said, it should also be pointed out that Joseph's argument is that abiogenesis could only occur by chance alone. If that were true, he would be right. In fact, however, abiogenesis occurred because of specific non-random mechanisms. Such mechanisms can produce a result that might seem highly improbable by chance alone, but if in fact that is the only result they can produce, the probability of getting that result is really 1.
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> Kevin L. O'Brien
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