Re: [asa] Amazing Proteins

As I thought, there is not much here. As to the idea that "evolution
is a protein dependent phenomenon", I would say that at best we can
argue that evolution has used quite successfully the nature of
proteins but one must be careful to distinguish function, which of
course is an essential part of evolution with 'design', a common
confusion.
Of course, since evolution uses proteins, proteins appear to be quite
successful in our world for evolution. Lacking any other data points
it seems a bit early to conclude that proteins are essential for
evolution. At best we can argue that proteins out competed its
predecessors.
But as Iain has pointed out claiming that proteins are necessary for
the success of evolution is like blaming letters for the success of
Shakespeare or notes for the success of Mozart rather than these being
given.

Certainly science is well aware of the importance of proteins and
while some are arguing that proteins could not have evolved, others
have found, to probably noone's surprise, that proteins may be quite
accessible to evolutionary processes. Coincidence? Or by 'design'?
Well, as I stated, evolvability is how evolution 'designs' its own
processes of variation. Of course, as usual, this does not preclude an
'Intelligent Designer'.

While I understand your interest in just asking questions, I fail to
see the relevance of said questions. After all, the puddle also
questioned why the depression was perfectly shaped to fit it, and
while pondering the meaning of said coincidence, the puddle slowly
evaporated.

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Nucacids <nucacids@wowway.com> wrote:
> Hi PvM,
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> "You could almost think of this but too bad there is no scientific
> hypothesis here."
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> But this is not relevant. For this criticism to be relevant, I would have
> to argue that I do indeed have a scientific hypothesis in hand and I don't.
> Alternatively, you'd have to argue that everything other than a scientific
> hypothesis is nonsense. And it isn't.
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Received on Wed May 7 00:33:24 2008