>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?
Hi Chris,
All you have to do to prove your point is give one example where the
accidental change in one nucleotide could specify a new "beneficial" protein.
bertvan
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