I hope you don't write scientific papers that rely on that kind of reasoning.
I calls em like I sees em.
I happen to know a little about math. I'm blessed that way. Unlike some here.
Because of an education and a brain and a good nose, I can spot a charlatan a mile away.
You are inquisitive, Chem Engineer is not. He's a pompous arrogant charlatan.
Think about it. The mere idea that any puny human being could claim to know how God operates is ludicrous.
Elementary combinatorics tells us that if you're building an alphabet with 26 letters, you ADD the probabilities of singlets, doublets, triplets, and so on. You don't multiply, you add. Any college kid with a half a chemistry degree should know that. After all, it's fundamental for everything from particle-in-a-box to Boltzmann's entropy.
If you're selecting three letters in alphabetical order from an alphabet of 26, the formula is 26! / (26-3)! You can Google for it, there are hundreds upon thousands of web sites about math. You can even do it manually by writing out every alphabetic sequence, you'll come up with the same answer. You can even do it a different way and you'll still come up with the same answer.
You DON'T multiply 1/26;to the 26th power, that's the wrong answer.
Calculating probability requires you take ALL possible paths into account. Just like Feynman integrals, same principle.
Nature does NOT build long proteins one amino acid at a time. It builds short segments, then it puts the segments together. That's why you see a lot of repeating sections. The helical sections of proteins usually contain lots of repeating segments, because that's how shapes are built. It's rare to find a proline or a tryptophan, and when you do it means something special
Email Tour then loudmouth, and share the correspondence with us, he can be easily reached:
Yes, I'm a loudmouth on this point and will continue to be so, because it's important to shout down the charlatans. Because the stupid bastards are loud, they're dumb and they're loud and that's a bad combination. We need to be responsible to the children and give them good information, otherwise they'll just laugh at us. You don't teach a child bad math, that's a Bozo no-no. If a kid asks you to explain something and you don't know the answer, you say "I don't know" and point him to the library. Like they say, better to be thought an ignorant fool rather than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
Scruffy doesn't like fools. He growls at them. And if they growl back he bares his fangs. And if that doesn't work he likes to sink his teeth into a big dog's legs because they're usually top heavy. He likes the sound they make when they fall over