Anti-evolution 'arguments' abusing probability

 https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/anti-evolution-arguments-abusing.html

The meme is an example of a typically awful 'argument' which touches, however erroneously, on molecular biology. 

Of course there's no chance if your model, the process you are assuming, is merely imagining amino acid molecules randomly bumping into one another. When you get a number like this, we can all instantly recognise that the model - the assumed process and scenario, is hopelessly wrong. We don't even have to ask to see details of the 'model' nor the mathematical working, (which is never shown), to know that a gross error has been made. Apart from the absence of a model, no mention is made of how many trials are being considered, nor at what frequency. A result like that allows us to conclude that somebody has got it all badly wrong.

The other thing that constantly needs to be pointed out to the evo-phobes is that evolution is not about the creation of life, but instead, it is about how and why life -er- evolves once it is created. They never seem to learn.

Even if the writer of Genesis is wrong, when he wrote that the earth and the waters brought forth life, and if, instead, life was poofed into existence by an unnatural magic man using his ju-ju, it would make not one jot of difference to evolution, which only starts when you have life, however it came about. 

If you think that God
was capable of creating a world that could bring forth life, then you are neither an atheist nor an anti-theist.

Here's a great book by the professor of mathematics, Jason Rosenhouse, 
The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism. https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/on-failures-of-mathematical-anti.html
From the book, 
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/here-be-dragons-searching-large-phase.html

Here's a routine I wrote to show that a common beginners schoolboy/schoolgirl basic misapplication of probability can lead to error. Probability is often counter-intuitive. 
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/probability-emo.html  


See also, 

https://www.sciencemeetsreligion.org/2022/11/do-probability-arguments-refute-evolution-2/
https://barryhisblog.blogspot.com/p/calculating-protein-probability.html
https://ncse.ngo/creationism-and-pseudomathematics
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/the-texas-sharpshooter




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