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... can ask those questions. But in how many planets are there where there is no-one to wonder about natural selection? This is just like lottery, the odds of winning are small but there are winner nonetheless.

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... I think we need to remember that 1) One of the greatest safety nets for evolution is the vast amount of time--the very reason is the incredible odds that life would come from whatever the latest theory is now--lipids? The mathematical improbability increases with each new interdependent system ...

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... out with a much lower risk of breast cancer to begin with than that of the older women involved in the studies. (To make a rough comparison of odds, the average 35 year old woman has a 1 in 622 chance of developing breast cancer, while a 55 year old woman has a 1 in 33 risk -- quite a large ...

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... wrong) , i wasn't trying to be persuasive. The point is that even if you took the 287 amino acids and tried to combine them without guidance the odds of getting it right so that the polar bonds caused the secondary and tertiary Arranging these 287 amino acids through randomness in 1000 years ...

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... H bonded on the side of carbon or nitrogen. The point is that even if you took the 287 amino acids and tried to combine them without guidance the odds of getting it right so that the polar bonds caused the secondary and tertiary, and then even a quaternary structure would be off the chart! To ...

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