Re: [asa] Amazing Proteins

Of course, the possibility of a design explanation always exists but
the question is not one of marveling at what proteins can do but
rather, can science explain the success of evolution? While early
guesses suggested that time was insufficient to search sequence space,
science has found that sequence space translates to a much smaller set
of proteins.
We can of course always marvel at the physics involved but how do we
turn this into a scientifically relevant position?

Of course, contrary to what you suggest, it may not have been that
fortuitous after all.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:45 PM, Nucacids <nucacids@wowway.com> wrote:
>
> Of course, if it all began, as they say, by coopting certain amino acids to
> act as catalytic groups, or fortuitously latching on to small peptides to
> function as cross-linkers, it was perhaps the Most Lucky Event of all that
> such simple cofactors/linkers contained within them the latent potential to
> turn the blind watchmaker into a rather impressive designer-mimic. ;)
>
> -MikeGene

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Received on Thu May 1 01:23:25 2008