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Random mutations cannot explain evolution of humans

What I have shown is this: If all the synaptic connections of a three-year-old child were hard-coded...

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They are not. That's been pointed out to you more than once in this thread. The only way you seem to be able to continue your discussion is by ignoring things that have been pointed out to you as being flat out wrong.

So, either accept that they are wrong and continue accordingly, or provide evidence that your assumptions are not wrong.
 
What I have shown is this: If all the synaptic connections of a three-year-old child were hard-coded (ignoring details such as location in the brain, length of axons, synaptic plasticity, etc.), in the order of 10^16 byte = 10,000,000 Gigabyte would be needed. Yet the whole active DNA of a human is less than 10^8 byte = 0.1 Gigabyte. And this information is assumed to be responsible also for many thousand enzyme species, differentiation into more than two hundred cell types, the highly complex anatomy of the human body at all levels, human learning capacity, instinctive behaviour and even talents.

Hi Wolfgang: Maybe your synaptic connections have been hard-coded since you were a three-year-old :D!

This has been addressed before in this thread - synaptic connections are not hard-coded. The process that connects them is hard-coded and is extremely simple: make lots of connections and reinforce the ones that are used (this is known as learning).
 

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