cbirch2
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Sorry, i was mistaken,i do see where Doc pointed it out.
But a few questions out of that article i am intersted in asking.
1. Where did the information necessary for life come from?
2. complex information-rich patterns in biological systems, Where did they originate?
This guy disagrees with you on question four.
4. the biology journal BioEssays published a special issue on “molecular machines.” In the introductory essay to that issue, Adam Wilkins, the editor of BioEssays, remarked, “The articles included in this issue demonstrate some striking parallels between artifactual and biological/molecular machines. In the first place, molecular machines, like man-made machines, perform highly specific functions. Second, the macromolecular machine complexes feature multiple parts that interact in distinct and precise ways, with defined inputs and outputs. Third, many of these machines have parts that can be used in other molecular machines (at least, with slight modification), comparable to the interchangeable parts of artificial machines. Finally, and not least, they have the cardinal attribute of machines: they all convert energy into some form of ‘work’.”
How, then, do biologists explain the origin of such structures?
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5. Michael Behe’s concept of irreducible complexity raises acute difficulties for Darwinism. Irreducible complexity is a “package-deal” feature of many biological systems. Package deals are all-or-nothing deals. You can have the whole package or you can have none of it, but you can’t pick and choose pieces of it. In biology, especially at the molecular level, there exist molecular machines (see last question) that cannot be simplified without losing the machine’s function. In other words, take away parts and you can’t recover the machine’s function. One such irreducibly complex molecular machine that has become the mascot of the intelligent design movement is the bacterial flagellum. This is a tiny motor-driven propeller on the backs of certain bacteria. It is a marvel of nano-engineering, spinning at tens of thousands of rpm. Biologist Howard Berg at Harvard calls it “the most efficient machine in the universe.” It is irreducibly complex.
How do evolutionary theorists propose to account for such systems?
7. In regular engineering one begins with a plan to construct a machine that serves a given function and then builds the machine according to plan. In reverse engineering, by contrast, one starts with a finished machine and tries to determine what its purpose is and how it was constructed. Scott Minnich, a University of Idaho molecular biologist and prominent proponent of intelligent design, will often remark in his public lectures that the only way for biologists to understand the workings of the cell is to approach its various systems as a reverse engineer. Thus the molecular biologist may take a functioning system in the cell, perturb it, see how the cell behaves differently to infer the system’s function. Alternatively, the molecular biologist may interfere at various points in the system’s self-assembly to determine how the system is constructed. In all such cases, the molecular biologist acts as an engineer making intelligent interventions and not as a gambler throwing dice. If we need the science of engineering to understand biological systems.
Why is this not evidence of design ?
1. Havent we been over this? The basic unit of information in DNA is a nitrogeneous base. These are very simple organic molecules. There is no mystery of how they could form.
2. Again, information rich means nothing. Just because theyre information rich right now does not mean they always were.
4. None of those similarities mean anything. He just defined a machine in like 4 different ways. That doesnt mean anything in terms of how they originated or how they function. Organelles within a cell operate completely differently than machines we create. If you actually understood the structure of organelles you wouldnt ask about their origin. They are simple lipid membranes. How dont you get that?
5. The entire concept of irreducible complexity is the result of one giant fallacy. Like i said, just because your car cant run without a transmission doesnt mean the I.C.E isnt a result of a the steam engine. Look at the evolution of the circulatory system. Our circulatory system would not work as is without a 4 chambered heart. If you suddenly lost your right ventricle, you would die. That doesnt mean amphibians dont have 3 chambers and fish dont have two. The whole argument is based on a very obvious logical fallacy. Not surprising, since creationists love those.
7. First of all, you totally ignored my statement about RNA synthesis. Second, the number of experiments we can do in a lab is still minuscule compared to the number of chemical reactions that could take place in just a second across the surface of the earth. Our inability to create life in a petri dish isnt evidence for or against evolution (or intelligent design). Its just evidence of our inability to control that number of molecules that precisely. The chances of a simple prokaryotic cell (no organelles) being formed spontaneously somewhere in the oceans of primitive earth within the last 4 billion years are a lot greater than us creating it in a petri dish in 50.
So in other words, by you not answering any of the questions you're avoiding the accurate answer,which is Design.
That is disingenuous,but not surprising.
That my firends is why their theory is so wrong, they rule out obvious evidence of intelligence because if they admit it, they can't rule out God the creator which is where all life and the complexity of life originated. That is nothing more than defending your religion on their part.
Lol your delusional. I numbered my responses according to your questions, but apparently you still cant follow. Is there a simpler way you would like these organized?
1. Q: Where did the information necessary for life come from?
A: Spontaneously formed nitrogenous bases
2. Q: Where did "complex information rich patterns" in nature originate?
A: Again, from slightly less complex "patterns"
4. Q: Are biological machines similar to machines we create?
A: No. They are similar in the sense that they fit the definition of "machine" in the most general sense, but they share no similarity other than that. They function on totally different principles. Either way, this question is pointless.
5. Q: How do biologists account for irreducible complexity?
A: This is a made up and totally rejected term. It does not exist. Again, it results from faulty logic. Its the same type of logic that leads IDiots to think a fish has to give birth to a mammal for evolution to be right. Think about it like this. Evolution would claim early mammals only had the lower brain. That doesnt mean you should be able to remove the entire upper brain from modern mammals and they should be fine. It doesnt work like that, thats IDiot logic.
7. Q: Why do we have to "reverse engineer" biological parts.
A: We dont have to in some cases (see, RNA, DNA, amino acid, protein, lipids, sugars). Just because we cannot make a cell from scratch doesnt mean life must have been intelligently designed. There is no evidence for that. Your taking a lack of evidence for one thing as evidence for another. I know your idiot little mind probably works in very simplistic black and white terms, but the world doesnt.
Tell me again how im dancing around your questions. Your so thick is ridiculous. Why does the entire scientific community discredit the hypothesis of irreducible complexity? It must just be one giant conspiracy huh? You know, it wouldnt surprise me at all if you thought that. Thats so typical of a stupid person to claim, in the face of all evidence, that they arent wrong, everyone else is just out to get them. God i hate how conservatives always think theyre being persecuted. Its their own little form of martyrdom, they think theyre holier because of it. Its pathetic.
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