[quote=Etcetera]
Coupled with the fact that the chances of one protein forming randomly are roughly the same as a blind man wandering through the Sahara for two years, and picking up a specific grain of sand, marked before the two year period, this occurring three times in a row. And that is only for one protein, not the sixteen necessary for basic life.
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An article I read in accompaniment with one lecture had this analogy:
Imagine 18 people standing in line. The amount of possible combinations for them to be arranged is 18! (18 factorial), which is 6402373705728000 (6.4 quadrillion). If the people switched to a different combination every minute, it would take them 12.18 billion years to try them all. Now, there are 18 amino acids that form one of the basic proteins. If it takes 12.18 billion years to try the combinations, one per [i]minute[/i], then how much more to make all the other proteins and arrange them into the right shapes for all the different parts of a cell?