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Isaac Asimov estimates that the 30-amino-acid-protein, insulin, has
8,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (eight octillion) different arrangements. He further extimates that the number of possible combinations for a 140 amino acid protein like hemoglobin is 135 followed by 165 zeroes. This is a larger number than all the atoms estimated in the universe.
Out of all these possibilities, the body can use only one arrangement. Asimov states,
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Out of 40,320 possible vasopressin combinations, the body chooses just one out of eight octillion possible combinations; for one of the insulin polypeptides, the body chooses just one.
The question is no longer where the body fines the variety it needs, but how it controls the possible variety and keeps it within bounds.2"
1 Isaac Asimov, The Genetic Code, New York: The New American Library, 1962, p.92.
2 Ibid., p. 93.
p.137,"Reasons Skeptics should consider Christianity"
One must wonder with the complexities of every little variable falling into place why everything is so precise and so exact. Would there have been enough time for all of the combinations to fall into place? Why isn't there evidence of life on other planets which haven't evolved into lower stages of the evolutionary ladder? Why aren't there half breeds of nothingness if it all fell on chance?
Another subject-
Bionic Comparisons:
The Bat and Manmade Sonar Systems
The Human Eye and Video Recording Systems
The Human Brain and a Computer
Would anyone suggest that the video recorder is a process of random chance? No. It was designed and it had a creator. In order to believe Evolution, us humans would have to have some random organs that have nothing to do with sustaining life or daily functions but we have specific and task oriented organs.