> Bertvan:
> In my judgement believing in tooth fairies is more reasonable than
believing
> rationally organized mutations can arise by chance with no intelligence
> involved.
Chris
Consider a single nucleotide. There are four possibilities for that
nucleotide. One of them is beneficial to the organism, and the others are
not. Randomly, out of every four replacements of this nucleotide, one
should be beneficial. Simple probability theory says that if the
possibilities are all equally random (equally probable) it *should* occur
about one time in four, on average.
But *you* claim that this one beneficial occurrence will *never* occur.
WHY IS THAT?
What will *prevent* this beneficial change from *ever* occurring if the
replacements are randomly occurring?
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