Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.xs3.de!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Casanova Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: West Virginia creationism Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 15:55:45 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 23 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: References: <%AzVN.19359$8tL7.11884@fx09.iad> <3n8m2jtvhd0nahms2un4i2gjbt1t6bpbk2@4ax.com> <2e5n3j1u9a0pdcmpd4m78l2dssq3kns552@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="83211"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:05UyAuRn1gfVLJ06+RlHNEzqDvA= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 4D34E229786; Wed, 08 May 2024 18:55:46 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3058B229767 for ; Wed, 08 May 2024 18:55:44 -0400 (EDT) id 797A17D12E; Wed, 8 May 2024 22:55:48 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575847D12D for ; Wed, 8 May 2024 22:55:48 +0000 (UTC) id 9E3BEDC01A9; Thu, 9 May 2024 00:55:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 00:55:46 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX180Gh4IMevm0WTgn2+J0hLQ7wC0nuqzH4DD00jruqDba+s5d6WXm1uP Bytes: 2929 On Wed, 8 May 2024 14:01:30 -0700, the following appeared in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman : >On 5/8/24 12:01 PM, Ron Dean wrote: >> What is so incredible is that there is about 1 million >> proteins in the human body each made up of a specific order of amino acids. > >That's certainly incredible. Where did you get that figure? Given that >there are around 20,000 protein-coding genes, that means that each gene, >on the average, produces around 50 different proteins. > Note the absence of the word "different" in his assertion. > -- Bob C. "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'" - Isaac Asimov