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This is a ques tion that ev o lu tion ists many more, and more var ied pro -
are un a ble to ex plain away, and can - teins, then the cal cu la tions be come
not ac count for such a spe cial ized, tru ly un fath om a ble.
con scious se lect iv i ty.
The ami no ac ids of all liv ing or -
gan isms on Earth, and the build ing LEWONTIN, RICHARD
blocks of com plex pol ym ers such as Richard Lewontin, a well known
pro teins, all have the same left- ge net i cist and ev o lu tion ist from
hand ed asym me try. This is tan ta - Harvard University, ad mits that he
mount to toss ing a coin a mil lion is "a ma te ri al ist first, a sci en tist sec -
times and hav ing it al ways come up ond":
heads. It is im pos si ble to un der stand
It is not that the meth ods and in sti tu -
why mol e cu les be come left-hand ed tions of sci ence some how com pel us ac -
or right-hand ed, and that this choice cept a ma te ri al ex pla na tion of the phe -
is fas ci nat ing ly re lat ed to the or i gin nom e nal world, but, on the con tra ry,
of life on Earth. that we are forced by our a pri o ri ad -
In con clu sion, it is to tal ly im pos - her ence to ma te ri al caus es to cre ate an
si ble to ac count for the or i gin of life ap pa ra tus of in ves ti ga tion and a set of
in terms of co in ci den ces: If we cal cu - con cepts that pro duce ma te ri al ex pla -
na tions, no mat ter how coun ter-in tu i -
late the prob a bil i ty of an av er age-
tive, no mat ter how mys ti fy ing to the
sized pro tein con sist ing of 400 ami -
un in i ti at ed. Moreover, that ma te ri al -
no ac ids be ing made up on ly of left-
ism is ab so lute, so we can not al low a
hand ed ami no ac ids, we ob tain a fig -
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ure of 1 in 2400, or 1 in 10 .
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The term a pri o ri that Lewontin
In or der to grasp some idea about
us es is par tic u lar ly sig nif i cant. This
this as tro nom i cal fig ure, we can say
phil o soph i cal term ex press es a giv en
that the to tal num ber of elec trons in
as sump tion, based on no ex per i men -
the uni verse is very much small er
tal da ta. In the ab sence of any in for -
than this, hav ing been cal cu lat ed at
ma tion re gard ing the truth of an
around 1079. The chan ces of ami no
idea, that idea is as sumed to be true,
ac ids form ing in the req ui site se -
"from the be gin ning." As open ly
quence and func tion al form, give
stat ed by the ev o lu tion ist Lewontin,
rise to a far larg er num ber.
ma te ri al ism is an a pri o ri as sump tion
If we then add these prob a bil i ties
for ev o lu tion ists, one in to which
and ex tend them to the for ma tion of
they at tempt to make sci ence fit.
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