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by wolfram74 593 days ago
1) 200,000 monkeys is considerably fewer than the trillions, nay, quadrillions of single celled organisms doing mutations through out biological history 2) They are not generating random ACTG strings ~3 billion pairs long, they are permuting a few at a time from a working starting point of the first tiny clump of self catalyzing chemicals.