Fw: Origin's: Yockey's book

Dr. Fred Phelps (Fred.Phelps@cmich.edu)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 22:14:35 -0500

Glenn wrote:

>
> The question I asked Yockey personally was, if you define this pattern of
> protein as one family of solutions to the cytochrome c functionality
whether
> another FAMILY, another pattern of hydrophobics hydrophilics etc will
> perform the function. If there are 10^30 different families, then you
would
> further reduce the probability against finding a useful functional
molecule
> by chance to 10^-14. This is in the range of what is found
experimentally
> by making random biopolymers. (see Directed Evolution, by Gerald Joyce,
> Scientific American Dec. 1993? (or 1992)
>
> Yockey didn't answer.
>
>
What did I miss while I was overseas? Did someone show that "useful
functional molecules" are being created in laboratories? I'm sure you
(Glenn) can summarize that paper faster than I can find, read, and
understand it.

Fred