Re: West Virginia creationism

On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:21:07 +0200, the following appeared in
talk.origins, posted by Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>:

On 2024-05-08 22:55:45 +0000, Bob Casanova said:
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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.

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I did notice that, but it could be just a typo. I sometimes leave out
important words (most seriously "not") in what I write.
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Possibly; we all do typos and misstatements. Or it could be
yet another example of his problems expressing himself
clearly. Either way, that number is wrong, either way too
high or ridiculously too low.

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