Thats a big number. And thats just– and you e saying for the protein to interact, and thats for a binding site?
A. That’s right. That’s not considering the function of the proteins. It’s just as if you had, for example, that spring in the mousetrap and you wanted it to attach to, say, the catch, and you didn’t want an intelligent agent to put it together, how likely would it be if it mutated in a way similar to the way proteins do in the cell? In order to do that, you need a long time and a very large population size– prohibitively large– just to get those two things together, not even worrying whether their shapes were the right shapes for the purpose– just to get them to stick specifically to each other. It’s a problem which I think is very much underappreciated not only by the general public, which doesn’t know much about it, but also by the scientific community, which generally doesn’t spend much time thinking about it. MR. CALVERT: Thank you very much for your time to testify. I believe I don’t have any further questions. Mr. Irigonegaray, your witness. MR. IRIGONEGARAY: Thank you very m
