Biological complexity: misfolded protein problems (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 06, 2017, 14:59 (2635 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Cell reproduction is at high speed. Mistakes occur. We see the protections for mistake discovery are in place. You want to cells to invent their own protection while working at high speed. A day dream. It all had to be place at the start.

dhw: Again I wonder why an all-powerful designer, who is always in control, would design a system that makes mistakes. This doesn’t strike you as strange? Do you think he was incapable of designing a system without mistakes? If not, maybe he wanted it to make mistakes, but gave it the potential ability to put things right. ("Potential" because lots and lots of things go wrong and are not put right.) That would fit in very nicely with the history of evolution. Or do you think he was incapable of designing a system potentially enabling organisms to put things right?

The biological cell has many moving parts acting at high speed in a liquid environment. If a molecular movement is a split-second off, a mistake can happen. God in His wisdom recognized this obvious problem and put into place the proper corrective mechanisms. Preparing for possible mistakes is perfect designer planning.