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Author Topic:   AIG has an article up on the nylon-digesting bacteria
wj
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Message 13 of 27 (100288)
04-15-2004 8:20 PM
Reply to: Message 12 by Wounded King
04-15-2004 12:59 PM


I think that Black's point of the cytochrome C case was that there are multiple variations of the protein which are completely functional. Therefore trying to perform probability calculations on the formation of a specific version of cytochrome C is pointless. It ignores the fact that a large number of possible outcomes will give a functional protein. Therefore the probability is not say 1 in 10 million but 500,000 in 10 million. Spetner apparently ignores this point because it defuses his argument.
As you rightly point out, the variation found in cytochrome C throughout living organisms is consistent with the theory of evolution: a primative protein which has only a small, critical functional zone and where mutation can occur outside the functional zone without being selected against.
Makes on wonder why Spetner's intelligent designer couldn't stick to a single "intelligent design" for the protein.

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