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To: Brumar89 who wrote (11261)	12/20/2010 12:16:19 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Hubert (not Herbert) Yockey is not a biologist, but an information scientist and physicist. He makes the rather odd statement that the origin of life is the founding axiom of biology, then goes on to advance a statistical (!) argument that life is vanishingly improbable. The name "Herbert Yockey" appears to be a misspelling that has propagated exclusively in creation-partisan websites. One of the few informative texts i could find placed Yockey's ideas on par with Fred Hoyle's. Hoyle was a brilliant man, but that did not stay him from standing behind some rather blatant garbage. You've produced the opinion of someone who is far from the mainstream of biology. I don't see that as brute fact, but rather as (sigh, the usual) arguments about what words mean. I disagree with Yockey's boldly declarative thesis. DNA and its transcription machinery are just that, so much molecular lockwork imo. It is interesting to note that on his own blog, hubertpyockey, the lead entry disassociates his work from ID.