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Mathematical Challenge

Answer me this. The earth is stated to be 4 billion years old. Life is said to have started 1 billion years later (3 billion years old). The simplest cell that can even be theorized to have ever existed - would have to consist of at least 256 base pairs (the rungs on the ladder of a gene). There are approximately 3 billion base pairs in a human gene. How did all those base pairs get added? There is nothing that exists that can even add a base pair to a gene, and then pass that gene on to the next generation (this is the key – survival of the fittest is nothing if it can not pass to offspring) - it simply does not exist. To clarify, scientists have engineered viruses that can add base pairs - currently the maximum is about 125 base pairs added (note however they have not designed one that can modify enough to pass it to offspring in any way – no sperm or egg change). Although a virus does not exist that can do this, and there is no other means to add base pairs (mutations change or lose information only – never add base pairs). So assume with me now that all this was possible (although no virus exists today that can do this). Can you imagine how many of these viruses would have had to exist to add the 3 billion base pairs to a human gene - and how many other viruses to add base pairs to other "branches" of humans that did not survive because the added base pairs were useless or did not benefit them in any way? And how would these added base pairs benefit the pre-human? Would a virus infect something, and boom - the thing grows an eye? Absolutely not - evolutionists would say it would need to be gradual - so just one virus would not do the trick, it would take many that built logically upon each other to increase useful information. And would not these viruses be pretty tough, and be able to last a while if they could do all this - yet we cannot find any today? And oh yeah - where did that virus come from again? I will stop with that - although there are many other problems - but I would like to see someone write out the mathematical formula that represents this problem - and more importantly try and imagine the number of other viruses that would have to do different things in different ways to other genes to form all the other kinds of life on this planet. Think about it... It does not add up.


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Author
Josh Fuller (fullej[ at ]hotmail.com)

Date
Jul 31, 2002

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