Matt: There is NO TEST here. There is an observation that a protein requires 319 bits to encode it. > > An observation is NOT a test. Therefore, this isn't an hypothesis. > > > "An attribute that is unique to minds is the ability to produce statistically significant levels of functional complexity" > > Again, what's the test?-I agree with you that it is not a test. It appears to me to be an observational truth. By exclusion, what else can produce statistically significant levels of functional complexity? I would use the kidney as an example. They appeared de novo in the Cambrian. Don't quote the 10 million years, they appeared when they appeared and there are no precursors. I have talked dhw out of chance. Besides a 'mind' I can think of no other possibility.