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From: Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off>
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Subject: Re: West Virginia creationism
Date: Wed, 08 May 2024 17:05:48 -0700
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On Wed, 8 May 2024 16:51:47 -0700, the following appeared in
talk.origins, posted by John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com>:

>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
>> <john.harshman@gmail.com>:
>> 
>>> 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