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- From: bobb@tekig1.PEN.TEK.COM (Robert W Bales)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: CWACKers and Complexity (bits of information definition)
- Message-ID: <7633@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 02:25:50 GMT
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- Trygve Lode writes:
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- >Gange's argument rests on at least two fatal flaws. The first, and less
- >serious one, is the implicit assumption that self-replicating molecules
- >are unique--that "1500 bits" of information that specify a self-replicating
- >molecule are the only "1500 bits" that would do so.
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- >While not every "1500 bit" molecule is going to be self-replicating, quite a
- >large number of them will be, which makes the odds of creating such a
- >molecule even by random
- >chance in a single experiment much better than 1 in 2^1500.
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- How do we know this? And what, in terms of percentages, is "quite a large
- number?"
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- Bob Bales
- Tektronix, Inc.
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- I help Tektronix make their instruments. They don't help me make my opinions.
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