Creation Moment 10/24/2019 - Mathematical Probability of Evolution Happening

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing,
because our days upon earth are a shadow.
Job 8:9

"According to Darwinian evolution, life evolves through mutation and natural selection. Random mutations introduce variations, and nature weeds out the unhelpful variations, allowing the individuals with good variations to survive and thrive.

"No one doubts that natural selection is a real process and that it produces minor variations, but many biologists now doubt that it produces major innovations in biological form," Meyer explains. "What happens if you introduce a few random changes into computer code? You’ll likely mess it up, right?"

 

"In all codes and languages, there are vastly more ways of arranging characters that will generate gibberish than there are arrangements that will generate meaningful sequences," the Discovery Institute scholar explains. "Natural selection only selects sequences that random mutations generate."

 

Trusting random mutations to create new forms of life is like trusting that a bunch of random changes to computer code will generate an exiting new computer program — it's extremely implausible.

 

It is also mathematically unlikely to an absurd degree. DNA sequences capable of making stable proteins are extremely rare — so rare, it's hard to wrap your mind around it.

 

"Molecular biologist Douglas Axe showed that for every DNA sequence that generates a relatively short functional protein, there are ten to the seventy-seventh power non-functional sequences," Meyer explains. To put that in perspective, he notes that "there are only ten to the sixty-fifth power atoms in our galaxy."

"So finding a new DNA sequence capable of building a new functional protein is like searching blindfolded for a single marked atom among a trillion Milky Way galaxies," he explains."

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