Stardate 20010713.1038 (On Screen): It's another installment of "shooting a flea with a cannon": a study finds an average of 14 distinct alleles for 313 human genes they studied in an ethnically varied group of 82 subjects. How, exactly could that happen when we're all descended from just ten chromosomes of each type? That would be two each from Noah, his wife, and his three daughters-in-law. (I got an email from a creationist yesterday telling me that I must be wrong about it because I don't have a college degree, and since I am "uneducated and inexperienced" [his words] my opinion on the subject is worthless.)
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