| Saya pernah dengar bahwa sebenarnya Darwin itu tidak pernah
| menyimpukan [sic] bahwa Manusia itu berasal dari Monyet.
| Kalau sampai terjadi kontroversil tersebut akibat sepak-terjang
| oknum cendekiawan Yahudi dengan jalan mendramatisasikannya.
| Mohon konfirmasi yang sebenarnya. Ada yang tahu ?
Dear Netters,
That is the most ridiculous BS I've ever heard so far. I doubt that
they guy who wrote the above statement knows anything about Darwin's
Evolution Theory. One thing for sure though: he was born hating Jews
(ironically, he never knows nor even meets any of them).
BTW ... an evolution-related theory has recently been circulating in
the Net. This new theory goes something like this: "Given *enough
time*, a monkey pounding on a typewriter (or modern-day
word-processor) could eventually produce a sonnet, or even the
complete works of Shakespeare."
In apparent attempt to mock Darwin's grand idea on evolution, the new
theory, dubbed as "The Cybermonkey Theory," argues that the chance of
life springing from inorganic matter is as good as finding the monkey
capable of writing a Shakespearean sonnet.
Not everyone agrees. Dr. Ian Musgrave from Prince Henry's Institute
of Medical Research showed that "the probability of a given page of
any text being generated randomly is roughly 1 in 10^1000, assuming
200 words per page, and average word size of 5 letters (not counting
punctuation or whitespace)."
Dr. Musgrave further wrote that generating the 32 amino acid
self-replicating Ghadiri ligase at random has a probability of 1 in
4.2x10^41, and the probability of generating a given sequence of the
101 amino acid peptide cytochrome C is 2.5 x 10^131. Score 1-0 for
the amino acids. [Note: amino acids are building blocks of every
living things]
He added, that in a global ocean of 10^20 litres, with an amino acid
concentration of 1x10^-6 molar, there are something like 1x10^50
potential starting chains. Assuming that it takes a week to generate
a sequence, then the Ghadiri ligase could be generated in one week,
and any cytochrome C sequence could be generated in a bit over a
million years (which is very reasonable in evolutionary/geologic time
scale).
To demonstrate the theory, a nice Java script has been written to
simulate a monkey pounding a typewriter. You can hear the
click-clacking of the typewriter at the site
(http://www.playlink.com/staff/dfox/monkey.htm).
Meanwhile, other experts approached this issue with different
attitudes. Take for example this fellow "Doctor Adam Safran."
Immediately he founded the "100-Monkeys Project", apparently inspired
by the SETI project (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence), so
he can get help from the Net community. And so began the Search for
Intelligent Monkeys on the Internet (SIMI) Project in early spring of
1999. Visit the site (http://www.100monkeys.org/)
I always consider myself a die-hard skeptic, but recently I have a
doubt. May be ... well, could it be possible that there such a
monkey? could it be that it is already running around the Net sending
e-mail and cross-posting here and there. This could explain the so
many unintelligible messages arrive daily in our inbox. That could
also be Boogie, the popular monkey who left the SIMI project on
August 15. As of this writing, Boogie has not reported back. He's
still lurking out there.
Perplexed,
Moko/
