Frases de Pierre Lecomte du Noüy

Pierre Lecomte du Noüy fue un biofísico, matemático y escritor francés.

Fue agregado y miembro asociado del Instituto Rockefeller en Nueva York. Jefe de departamento en el Instituto Pasteur, París . Se traslada de Europa a los Estados Unidos, donde pronunció numerosas conferencias en los establecimientos militares para defender la causa de Francia. Escribió y publicó varias obras filosóficas .

Después de 1936, sus escritos se refieren a la filosofía de la ciencia, específicamente en lo que se refiere a la evolución, la religión y la teleología.

Inventó el tensímetro que lleva su nombre, para la medida de la tensión superficial de líquidos, así como un micro-viscosímetro para el estudio del suero. Wikipedia

✵ 20. diciembre 1883 – 22. septiembre 1947

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Pierre Lecomte du Noüy: Frases en inglés

“One of the funniest examples of these kinds of statistics comes from Evolution: Possible or Impossible by James F. Coppedge [who] cites an article by Ulric Jelinek … which claims that the odds are 1 in 10^243 against "two thousand atoms" (the size of one particular protein molecule) ending up in precisely that particular order "by accident." Where did Jelenik get that figure? From Pierre Lecompte du Nouy… who in turn got it from Charles-Eugene Guye, a physicist who died in 1942. Guye had merely calculated the odds of these atoms lining up by accident if "a volume" of atoms the size of the Earth were "shaken at the speed of light." In other words, ignoring all the laws of chemistry, which create preferences for the formation and behavior of molecules, and ignoring that there are millions if not billions of different possible proteins--and of course the result has no bearing on the origin of life, which may have begun from an even simpler protein. This calculation is thus useless for all these reasons, and is typical in that it comes to Coppedge third-hand (and thus to us fourth-hand), and is hugely outdated (it was calculated before 1942, even before the discovery of DNA), and thus fails to account for over half a century of scientific progress.”

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Richard Carrier, "Bad Science, Worse Philosophy", Addendum B, http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/addendaB.html#et_al at The Secular Web (Internet Infidels: 2000) <br class="br">About

“Let us admit that no matter how small the chance it could happen, one molecule could be created by such astronomical odds of chance. However, one molecule is of no use. Hundreds of millions of identical ones are necessary. Thus we either admit the miracle or doubt the absolute truth of science.”

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Human Destiny, 1947, p. 33
Commenting on Charles-Eugene Guye's calculation that the odds against the random formation of a particular protein molecule would be about 1 in 10 to the 243rd.