Re: Help requested on flagellum


thissteve wrote:
> You know more than I do about this topic, but somehow I formed an
> opinion anyway.
>
> Friar Broccoli wrote:
> >
> > Chance of a mutation: 1/10 (probably more frequent)
> > Chance of beneficial mutation: 1/10^20 (a very safe guess*)
>
> Here's the sticking point as I see it. First, if you're going to
> source your claim of bacterial population, then you need to source your
> more controversial claim of chance of beneficial mutation.
>
> Creationists claim that beneficial mutations, defined by them as adding
> "new information", have never been observed. Antibiotic resistance is
> not making something new, they'll say. You might need to dig into a
> definition of "information" and demonstrate that their request (as I
> understand it) cannot be satisfied in principle.
>
> I remember this argument from the board a while back (can't remember
> who came up with it):
>
> a) 10011101111000001101001100110100011011001
> b) 10001110101110000110111001101000011010010
>
> Which sequence contains more information?

I think they're asking for sequence c:
100111011110000011010011001101000110110010011

Why would that be impossible to satisfy in principle?

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