Comte de Sats Germain on Nostr: Mayyyyybe. Its certainly concerning. I'd point a potential flaw in their math and ...

Mayyyyybe. Its certainly concerning. I'd point a potential flaw in their math and reasoning - a 20 base pair match sounds like 1 in a trillion, but it probably is a lot less impressive than that. I'm trying to be cautious in my wording - I'm not about to start seriously crunching numbers. The human genome is 3 billion base pairs long, and its definitely not random, so this isn't the same math as seed entropy. DNA gets copied **_a lot_** by different organisms, and I've had some back and forth with my biology professor about how it just doesn't seem like genetic drift and convergent evolution can explain it. But regardless of the why and how, the fact is, if some code works, its used all over the place. So how random can it be? And 20 base pairs is nothing. A typical gene - meaning functional code that results in either a timing change or a protein - is tens of thousands of base pairs long. A coincidence of 20 BP does not mean code to do something new. It can't. Its not enough. That's like writing in c++ and stopping at the first open parentheses and hoping it'll do something. That said, it actually will do something. DNA information is encoded not only sequentially, but geometrically. If 20 BP are added somewhere, the geometry changes because the charge regions change. Then maybe other genes that actually do code for something get their timing or frequency altered. So its possible. But I'm skeptical because they base their claim on the impossible math of a 20 BP coincidence, and it's just not impossible - its similar to using "old MacDonald has a farm etc" as your seed phrase.

But concerning nonetheless. Stuff to think about.