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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Re: codes,designs,creation,intelligence
Message-ID: <566@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 15-Jul-85 19:28:07 EDT
Article-I.D.: psivax.566
Posted: Mon Jul 15 19:28:07 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 03:17:19 EDT
References: <32500041@uiucdcsb> <43@uw-june>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
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Summary: 

In article <43@uw-june> gordon@uw-june (Gordon Davisson) writes:
>
>'The Evolution of Darwinism' (Scientific American, July '85; strongly
>recomended reading for anyone involved in this debate) describes a type of
>mutation called tandem multiplication, and gives sections of the collagen
>gene in chickens and the immunoglobulin genes in mice as examples of genes
>that show the mark of this type of mutation.
>
	The most amazing thing I noticed in this article was the
shortness of many of the replicands. This implies that *very* short
amino acid chains(on the order of a few *tens* of peptides) can have
significant enzymatic activity. This means that early life may have
been possible with a *far* simpler structure than any living organism.
It certainly throws many of the probability arguments into a cocked
hat, since essentially all chains of that length will form randomly
in a rather short time(there are only about 10,000 or so, or maybe 100,000).

-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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