Refutation of a Statistical Argument Supporting Coevolution (Origins)

by David Turell , Sunday, March 07, 2010, 00:51 (5374 days ago) @ David Turell


> > http://www.pnas.org/content/97/25/13690.full
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> > For the uninitiated, "Coevolution theory claims that the conserved pathways of amino acid biosynthesis in modern organisms (i.e., those found in all three domains of life) can be used to infer the historical precursor-product relationships between amino acids."
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> > This paper demolishes this line of questioning, showing that chance can account for 23-64% of the amino acid combinations we see today. > 
> > You lost an important weapon, David!
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> No way! -Matt: You wil hate this fascinating article by materialist scientists, some really top of the line types. There is a long review discussion and at the end a computation that states probability odds for replication and translation development by chance are 10^-1018, and life requires an infinity of multiverses, certainly not the 10^500 predicted by string theory.-Eugene Koonin's article and commentaries:-
http://www.biology-direct.com/content/2/1/15