Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!news.szaf.org!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 17:05:48 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <5k4o3j9po9112h37vo54a7tjmeuc8v140u@4ax.com> References: <3n8m2jtvhd0nahms2un4i2gjbt1t6bpbk2@4ax.com> <2e5n3j1u9a0pdcmpd4m78l2dssq3kns552@4ax.com> <78KdnfcEGduJjaH7nZ2dnZfqlJydnZ2d@giganews.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="84966"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.20.32.1218 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:Xao3PhU9NRp/bANfviJZHiNdJa0= Return-Path: X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 6261D229786; Wed, 08 May 2024 20:05:49 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FC7F229767 for ; Wed, 08 May 2024 20:05:47 -0400 (EDT) id 595AC7D12E; Thu, 9 May 2024 00:05:51 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A8C77D12D for ; Thu, 9 May 2024 00:05:51 +0000 (UTC) id 20381DC01A9; Thu, 9 May 2024 02:05:50 +0200 (CEST) X-Injection-Date: Thu, 09 May 2024 02:05:49 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX1/LNoaCWqV2AWCZQLjlJ57bJ5HLP3zMdHWuFZKvdMBSVfTiSlS7PqPc Bytes: 3477 On Wed, 8 May 2024 16:51:47 -0700, the following appeared in talk.origins, posted by John Harshman : >On 5/8/24 3:55 PM, Bob Casanova wrote: >> 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. > >In that case, "1 million" would be a much, much more severe >underestimate. He's better off with the first claim. > Oh, I agree; I even thought of pointing out that either one would be wrong (only 1M proteins in the human body?!?), but decided to just leave it at what I wrote, which covered the apparent "miss" (and noted his possibly intentional bait). > -- 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