Re: Non-beneficial Gaps

In article <ee6b4a80-d381-4903-b489-5e49ad105374@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Seanpit <seanpitnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
>All known language/information systems share a common feature. If
>concepts or ideas or forms of information require a greater number of
>characters or a greater specificity of character arrangement, the
>ratio of potentially meaningful or useful or functional systems
>relative to the number of potential character arrangements drops off
>*exponentially*.

Let's go up a level and see if it still holds true.

Does adding words to a book make in exponentially less likely to hold meaningful or useful information?

<snip>

This is a fundamental problem for the ToE. Every living thing
requires many systems that have minimum structural threshold
limitations well beyond the 1000aa mark. A requirement of 1000 fairly
specified amino acid residues, at minimum, produces an average gap
that is two to three hundred residues wide and a likely minimum gap
that is at least 50 mutational changes wide. Such a gap is not
crossable - even given an evolutionary time frame of several billion
years.

The fundamental problem for your theory is, of course, that you cannot show that these gaps exist at all. Nor can you show that any apparent large gap *has* to be crossed in a single step.

The ancestor of any protein may well have crossed the gaps in small steps over many generations, each small step being either neutral or advantageous (as the disadvantageous ones will be filtered out by natural selection).

It is also certain that many different proteins can perform the same function in life i.e. there is not a unique target which has to be hit in order for the protein to be of use.

Actually thinking about this it even makes an obvious prediction. Given that species have split off at different times in the past there should be numerous examples of proteins that had the same root but which developed in different ways in different species as different "gaps" were crossed.
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