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Life has had 3-4 billions years to evolve on earth.

I suggest you read 'the blind watchmaker' by Dawkins to answer your other question.




You are just repeating the point that was being argued against.

If the lifetime of the universe isn't enough to randomly produce Shakespeare, 3-4 billions of years are cute but useless to randomly produce anything even near as sophisticated as our 46 chromosome set.

I imagine Dawkins still just repeats the conjecture "but it's 3-4 billion years, anything can happen!"


A work of Shakespeare is a single specific target, that's why it takes so long to hit it - one letter out doesn't cut it. DNA meanwhile is a general purpose animal kit that has many billions of 'correct answers'. It's not about sophistication.


it's not about the absolute number of correct answers

it's about the ratio of valid / invalid answers

which is somewhere very close to 0


[citation needed]

What are the numbers?




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