Genome complexity (Introduction)

by David Turell , Sunday, December 09, 2012, 15:04 (4150 days ago) @ hyjyljyj

David: "The more complex, the less likely for chance, and the more likely a case for design."-> hy: If it were only ONE single, giant, heaving coincidence bringing about life on Earth, for example, we MIGHT -- I say MIGHT -- be persuaded that it was just happenstance. When an unimaginable number of them are required just to make a single protein, and then another unimaginable number of them to get to the next level of organization, then another and another, at some point we get to ask, Are you kidding?-What I have always wondered is, did the Lords of Evolution, those University Ph.D.s ever take organic chemistry in college and then carry that knowledge over to look at the complexity of one organic enzyme made up of humdreds of amino acids, folded just so? And now finding that there are several layers of translation so that enzyme can be altered to do several jobs, not just one.-Darwin thought cells were simple blobs of protoplasm. I am quite sure Charlie would not have presented his theory so simply if he had the knowledge we have today. But you are right, it doesn't dissuade his stary-eyed atheist followers.