Quetz writes:
...The ribozyme uses nucleoside triphosphates and the coding information of an RNA template ...
Totally ludicrous, don't you see? I'm starting to think that you're not even READING what you cut and paste. You may even just be a sensationalist who enjoys complex ideas, even if there's no other reason for it. But simply posting the above quote (cut and paste) in hopes of supporting your argument shows that YOU DIDN'T READ it. The mechanisms that you describe requires INFORMATION and CODING (see your own post). So WHERE did this "information" COME FROM, and HOW was it ENCODED? And how was the CODE determined? And, once you have THAT problem solved, I'll let you explain where the DE-CODING system came from and HOW did they chemically evolve simultaneously and so conveniently.
I'm sure Quetzal read it, I'm just not sure that you understand it. A ribozyme is RNA. Some ribozymes can catalyze the replication of RNA, and the production of RNA building blocks from smaller molecules.
In other words, RNA produces RNA building blocks that are put together to replicate RNA. It's all RNA. There is no need for a complex coding and decoding machinery for what Quetzal is referring to.
A single, self-replicating strand of RNA is the code
and the catalyst.
The way scientists first produced, and continue to explore, the catalytic activity of such RNAs is by synthesizing millions of short RNA strands of
random sequence, and then
selecting the ones with activity.
But you ask:
So what if they can make RNA in a lab?
The argument that scientists intelligently designed these RNAs is not valid, since they did not predict or produce the sequence. That is, scientists were NOT able to
design catalytic RNAs, but
random production and
selection were able to produce them.
For this guy's crazy ideas to work, it REQUIRES a mechanism that can ENCODE GENETIC INFORMATION and, obviously another mechanism to DECODE. Where do these capabilities come from, and how does this mechanism decide WHAT INFORMATION TO ENCODE?
Again, self-replicating RNAs do not need encoding/decoding machinery. There is no "decision" for "what information to encode", it is merely chemical reactions. Short RNA strands capable of catalyzing their own replication do so. No higher information, no complex cellular machinery.
Hopefully that clears up your misconceptions a bit.
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