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I hesitate to post this for several reasons, one being that a topic on evolution was recently posted. However, I decided to anyway. This is stolen from another forum which I believe has since been deleted. I apologize in advance if this is a repost or if I have broken any forum rules; I hardly ever visit the forums, but I would really like to know what yall think. Quote:
Evolutionists claim that all life—including humans, animals and plant life all evolved from much simpler life forms that can be traced back to what is known as the “primordial soup theory.” The primordial soup theory is that life evolved from an interaction of heat upon the necessary elements to sustain life that were present in the oceans of the world after the earth had cooled. It is then the theory’s contention that this interaction spawned the simplest forms of life that in turn, evolved into more complex life forms that thus eventually resulted into the extremely complex living organisms of today. Evolutionists are surprisingly quiet, however, on the calculations that have been proposed when examining the probabilities that even the simplest life forms evolved from the proper set of elements.
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There are few basic elements of scientific notation that one must understand when understanding probability calculations. For example, if I was to say that you have one chance in 100 of making an improbable shot in golf, the notation of this would be written in scientific notation as 10^-2. Just as 100 is 10^2 power, its inverse (or 1 in 100) is 10^-2—one could also physically write out such a calculation in decimal notation as .01.
According to Borel’s Law anything with a chance smaller than 10^-50 (this number in decimal would look like .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 1) is deemed to be impossible regardless of the amount of chances or time one could assume. Noted Evolutionist Richard Dawkins proposed a loose standard of 10^-20 and stated that anything smaller is biologically impossible (Dawkins 1996). More recently the mathematician William Dembski, placed a much more stringent set of requirements of improbability and asserted that anything over 10^-150 should be deemed as absolutely impossible (Mastropaolo 1999).
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Physicist and Mathematician, Hubert Yockey, published a piece that performed the mathematics necessary to assess the probability of producing one molecule of iso-1-cytochrome c, a small protein (a very simple protein) common in plants and animals, and found that the probability of of such a protein is 10^-75 (Mastrapaolo 1999). Kinesiologist Dr. Mastrapaolo puts Yockey’s calculation another way, “Or to put it in evolutionary terms, if a random mutation is provided every second from the alleged birth of the universe, then to date that protein molecule would be only 43% of the way to completion ” (Mastrapaolo 1999).
Just the calculation of this simple protein is impossible by Borel’s law and Dawkin’s standards. Yet the evolutionist often resorts to name calling or asserting more fanciful conclusions when dealing with such probability calculations. One evolutionist recently produced a calculation that ½ billion planets like earth could produce an odds of nearly 1 to 1, but performed such calculation without addressing the odds of producing just one other planet that’s as unique as earth—thinking in terms of earth’s distance from the sun, magnetic field necessary to sustain life, and all the elements necessary and their delicate balance to produce life.
At this point, we’ve only introduced the odds of producing a simple protein and not the complex cell that contains a minimum of 60,000 proteins. Such calculations to determine the probability of this cell easily exceed all standards for impossibility, including Dembski’s 10^-150. Using Yockey’s probability of a protein as 10^-75 and assuming a total of 60,000 unique proteins are necessary to produce a complex human cell (a very generous calculation), Mastropaolo reaches a probability that a human cell spontaneously evolved at 10^-4,478,296 (Mastropaolo 1999)---this number in decimal would look like (.00000000000000000000000000000 (Imagine another 4,478,262 zeros between these braces)….000001).
Conclusion
When considering the odds and probability of evolution, it becomes even easier to assert that the evolutionist may have equal (or perhaps even more) faith in the theories surrounding evolutionary theory, than one does to believe in a Creator.
I hesitate to post this for several reasons, one being that a topic on evolution was recently posted. However, I decided to anyway. This is stolen from another forum which I believe has since been deleted. I apologize in advance if this is a repost or if I have broken any forum rules; I hardly ever visit the forums, but I would really like to know what yall think. Quote:
Evolutionists claim that all life—including humans, animals and plant life all evolved from much simpler life forms that can be traced back to what is known as the “primordial soup theory.” The primordial soup theory is that life evolved from an interaction of heat upon the necessary elements to sustain life that were present in the oceans of the world after the earth had cooled. It is then the theory’s contention that this interaction spawned the simplest forms of life that in turn, evolved into more complex life forms that thus eventually resulted into the extremely complex living organisms of today. Evolutionists are surprisingly quiet, however, on the calculations that have been proposed when examining the probabilities that even the simplest life forms evolved from the proper set of elements.
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There are few basic elements of scientific notation that one must understand when understanding probability calculations. For example, if I was to say that you have one chance in 100 of making an improbable shot in golf, the notation of this would be written in scientific notation as 10^-2. Just as 100 is 10^2 power, its inverse (or 1 in 100) is 10^-2—one could also physically write out such a calculation in decimal notation as .01.
According to Borel’s Law anything with a chance smaller than 10^-50 (this number in decimal would look like .0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 1) is deemed to be impossible regardless of the amount of chances or time one could assume. Noted Evolutionist Richard Dawkins proposed a loose standard of 10^-20 and stated that anything smaller is biologically impossible (Dawkins 1996). More recently the mathematician William Dembski, placed a much more stringent set of requirements of improbability and asserted that anything over 10^-150 should be deemed as absolutely impossible (Mastropaolo 1999).
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Physicist and Mathematician, Hubert Yockey, published a piece that performed the mathematics necessary to assess the probability of producing one molecule of iso-1-cytochrome c, a small protein (a very simple protein) common in plants and animals, and found that the probability of of such a protein is 10^-75 (Mastrapaolo 1999). Kinesiologist Dr. Mastrapaolo puts Yockey’s calculation another way, “Or to put it in evolutionary terms, if a random mutation is provided every second from the alleged birth of the universe, then to date that protein molecule would be only 43% of the way to completion ” (Mastrapaolo 1999).
Just the calculation of this simple protein is impossible by Borel’s law and Dawkin’s standards. Yet the evolutionist often resorts to name calling or asserting more fanciful conclusions when dealing with such probability calculations. One evolutionist recently produced a calculation that ½ billion planets like earth could produce an odds of nearly 1 to 1, but performed such calculation without addressing the odds of producing just one other planet that’s as unique as earth—thinking in terms of earth’s distance from the sun, magnetic field necessary to sustain life, and all the elements necessary and their delicate balance to produce life.
At this point, we’ve only introduced the odds of producing a simple protein and not the complex cell that contains a minimum of 60,000 proteins. Such calculations to determine the probability of this cell easily exceed all standards for impossibility, including Dembski’s 10^-150. Using Yockey’s probability of a protein as 10^-75 and assuming a total of 60,000 unique proteins are necessary to produce a complex human cell (a very generous calculation), Mastropaolo reaches a probability that a human cell spontaneously evolved at 10^-4,478,296 (Mastropaolo 1999)---this number in decimal would look like (.00000000000000000000000000000 (Imagine another 4,478,262 zeros between these braces)….000001).
Conclusion
When considering the odds and probability of evolution, it becomes even easier to assert that the evolutionist may have equal (or perhaps even more) faith in the theories surrounding evolutionary theory, than one does to believe in a Creator.
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