Lennox should know better - I know in his zeal he wants to debate against abiogenesis but he would do better leaving this aspect of it alone. Molecular biologists just fall over laughing when presented with silly calculations like this one and the more famous one by Fred Hoyle. I asked Hoyle about this once and he didn't want to address the topic - of course he was getting on in years by then and his obsession with Panspermia I really do think clouded his mind - same with Steady State Theory as well.The probability about the proteins I heard from John Lennox, the Oxford mathematician. I'm not sure what else he has to say about biology but he always reminds his audience that he is not a biologist. He just knows that we can always describe the universe with something concrete which is math to him. The fact that we can do science on the assumption of a rational universe must mean something. I don't know if you want to take his word for it but that's what I heard from him.
What Hoyle and Lennox both did was to fail to understand the concept of sequence space versus the total sample space - very surprising because neither one is an idiot. But their lack of biochemical knowledge let's them down - which in itself is surprising because the concepts here are simple ones. Therefore I put it down to wanting something so bad they ignore the facts. Sad.
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