Mr. Matsumoto clearly groks the fullness of the fundamental problem with biology: biologists are functionally innumerate. They simply aren’t capable, and they have never been capable, of understanding the math that is required for them to make any sense of their own science.
Most of the apparent reasonableness of The Modern Creation Myth rests on people’s inability to understand Size and the scale of the things Science is actually talking about. Once you actually grok it… once numbers stop being simply “Big” and you start to understand how small some “Big” numbers can be in comparison to others…
The whole notion that we evolved from random processes just completely falls apart.
Completely......
That is a fact.
I’m telling you a mathematical fact.
It can’t happen. The creation of life by random chance could simply never occur.
There is a reason that economists are inordinately inclined to be dubious about evolution. And that reason is this: we comprehend large numbers. For all the flaws of our field, and believe me, they are many, there isn’t a single economist who is impressed by a biologist waving his hand and summoning “millions and billions of years” or dramatically declaring that 600,000 generations is but “an eyeblink” in the context of geological time.
We work in trillions, bitch.
So waving your hand and imagining that the mere evocation of ONE MILLION YEARS allows sufficient time for anything and everything to happen not only doesn’t impress us, it confirms our original impression that you are actually retarded. I mean, when your core argument is, quite literally, an Austin Powers joke about inflation in a 1997 movie, you should probably consider the very high degree of probability that your entire hypothesis is not only ill-founded, but obviously wrong.
Evolution by natural selection never happened because it is mathematically impossible. And if you don’t accept that, it is only because you don’t understand the relevant math.
