“The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome.”

Thank you Bryan. More and more scientists, especially in the fields that really didn’t exist 100 years ago, and at best, at much more basic levels, such as physics and microbiology are producing more and more evidence of perfection that has been assumed shouldn’t be there, yet is.
For readers who are interested in more: Here’s from the world of science – Darwin’s Black Box, M. Beher’s analysis of what he explains as “irreducibility” of protein structures and “cascade” of functions : In other words, something as apparently simple as say, blood clotting, requires that an entire preexisting sequence at the protein level is absolutely required for clotting to occur correctly. Any one error along the sequence negates the clotting – clotting doesn’t occur and the organism dies, clotting occurs too early, the organism dies, in fact, the organism can’t live in the first place. The problem Beher encountered in his work over the years was this: If thirty connected, cascading functions must occur correctly for clotting, one protein relying on the actions of the other protein, then triggering a response for the following protein, then logically, all the sequences must be correctly functional and interrelate from the get-go for the organism to survive. There is no way to evolve to the correct sequence.
The system is “irreducible” : one cannot reduce it to a simpler breakdown; it cannot work.
Beher is a self-proclaimed evolutionist – his challenge is that the evolutionary therory as currently stated is inadequate to account for the irreducible compelexities that exist in the world, therefore, in his mind, the evolutionists must critically analyse the theory and come up with something that does credibly address the reality of the world at the protein level.
Course, after going through Beher’s description of the problem, via what has been discovered about the incredibly complex “world” of proteins, it’s hard not to come to the conclusion that irreducible complexities at the cell and protein levels, just two fields of study that were completely unknown in the mid-1800s, are devastating to the theory of evolution. Cells at that time (1800- mid 1900s) were thought of as simple blobs. Scientists have since discovered that “simple” is not the word to describe cells. Beher describes a single-cell’s rotor structure at the micro level that easily rivals any engineer’s best work.
Beher’s book is well-written and entertaining. His description of the irreducibility of even a simple mouse-trap is surprising.
Beher states the problem he has: either evolutionary theory must be revised logically to account for this, and he doesn’t really know how or irreducible complexities point to a deliberate design, all components created to function at once, from the start. He reluctantly says it: God, but he’s not yet willing to throw in the towel.
Excellent read. Darwin’s Black Box.

http://www.amazon.com/Darwins-Black-Box-Biochemical-Challenge/dp/0743290313/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-0670677-5745417?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1175782409&sr=8-1

naliaka on April 5, 2007 at 11:05 AM

The idea of “irreducible complexity” is no problem, it ignores multiple pathways/functions. These two articles are a good start.

dorkafork on April 5, 2007 at 12:13 PM

Once you start on multiple, you get boxed in. Shifting goal posts around, like Beher’s furry little romance-addled rodent facing a twenty lane highway, and providing a theory corallary that’s the equivalent of helping the hapless creature by dropping him mid-highway with a helicopter, ten lanes to go of high-speed traffic, requires intervention. Intervention and evolution are incompatible concepts. As Beher points out, all the components for a mouse trap, asimple enough structure, are sitting in the garage, but they’ll sit there forever, and never organize themselves into a functioning trap. SOMEONE has to provide the organization AND input.
People can read Beher and come to their own conclusions. Beher himself states he’s still seeking an evolutionary solution. It seems your comment is designed to deter the inquisitive reader from reading his work.

naliaka on April 5, 2007 at 12:34 PM

What should be terrifying to all rational people is the rise of Neo-Lysenkoism in the body of Al Gore, oracle of the concept of “Global Warming.”
“by which personal ambition, state ideology, legitimate scientic division, appeasement and a curious mixture of legitimate and bogus science could get out of hand.” Elof Axel Carlson from Roll-Hansen’s “The Lysenko Effect.”
The warning signs are the threats from ignorant political figures who have no real science training in the field of climatology against climate researchers and meterologists who fail to toe the official party line of “global warming.”

naliaka on April 5, 2007 at 1:17 PM