leroy
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Not precisely true. Having a clay substrate can affect the relative amounts of left and right amino acids greatly, which affect the end probabilities.
This would be false if left amino acids preferentially made chains with other left amino acids (which seems likely given the nature of the bonds). Do you have evidence that left and right amino acids are equally likely to form chains with both types?
If the correlation between the first amino acid in the chain and subsequent ones is high, then your probability calculation will be badly off and the end probability can be quite high.
No, you can't, *unless* you also have some idea about the correlations.
For example, in your scenario, if each amino acid only forms chains with its own type, then the formation of chains would be an effective way to separate left and right amino acids and also give only chains of one type. The probability of any individual chain being all 'left' would be 50%.
Do you have evidence that left and right amino acids are equally likely to form chains with both types?
I personally have no idea, but the whole point (and in response to the OP) this is testable and falsifiable stuff.
If they are equally likely then the pattern would have Specified Complexity( SC), if they are not equally likely but rather there is a strong correlation in favor of bonding with amino acids with your same hand, the SC claim would be falsified.
This wouldn’t be an “argument from ignorance “ as claim, it would be an argument based on the positive testable and objective evidence that we have to date. One could test if they are equally likely or not.
This is an example of me not knowing the answer and depending on the answer I would conclude SC or “no-SC”……….. therefore this is testable stuff.