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Is it ironic that at the same time Cornelius nags about the imaginary overstatement of a paper that back at UD Robert Sheldon has concluded all life in the universe shares a common, ancient origin, is connected by panzooia? etc.
Oh, and Gil has applied Behe's (mis)calculations of malaria resistance to falsify human evolution. Big number therefore impossible. Never mind the calculations were built on false premises, that malaria evolved resistance multiple times, that developing resistance in the presence of drug, surviving, and then spreading to another host isn't a great measure of overall mutation rate.
He could also, you know, bother to look up the empirically determined human inter-generational mutation rate (by sequencing siblings and parents whole genomes), which is ~1.1 x 10–8 per position per haploid genome. So over his given 3 million years, that is 1% chance of change at every base per haploid genome. Pretty close to that determined by comparing human and chimp genomes (and our distance to them should be more than the common ancestor, no?). Oh, and ignoring genome rearrangements, duplications, etc, that is a TON of change for evolution to work on!
Analysis of Genetic Inheritance in a Family Quartet by Whole-Genome Sequencing
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/science.1186802
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