RE: Recap

Kevin L. O'Brien (klob@lamar.colostate.edu)
Wed, 14 Oct 1998 08:41:01 -0600

Greetings Pim:

"Joseph based this on the argument and calculations by Yockey who showed (and correct me if I am wrong) that the probability of one single protein forming randomly was 2.3e-75. There are several problems with this argument:"

It seems likely to me that Yockey wasn't even trying to advance an argument against the evolution of proteins, but to demonstrate that proteins could not evolve **by chance alone** and that therefore they must have evolved by specific non-random mechanisms.

Can anyone verify or refute this?

Kevin L. O'Brien