Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- From: Seanpit <seanpitnospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 12:23:39 -0800 (PST)
On Feb 20, 9:13 am, Scooter the Mighty <Greyg...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 20, 7:59 am, Seanpit <seanpitnos...@naturalselection.
0catch.com> wrote:
On Feb 20, 2:05 am, richardalanforr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
"1000aa threshold" - a magic number beyond which evolution can't
happen
Let's just look at this first one. You always start off such lists
with real winners!
The problem here is that this 1000aa threshold isn't just some magic
number beyond which evolution can't happen. It is an observed
threshold beyond which evolution doesn't happen. Evolution does
happen, demonstrably, all the time below this threshold. But, as this
threshold is approached, evolution stalls out, exponentially until it
doesn't happen at all well before this threshold is reached.
This is an observed fact. There simply is not argument here. Look it
up if you don't believe me. See if you can find a single example in
literature of any novel system evolving that requires at least 1000aa
working together at the same time.
I'm not sure how one would "look this up." Who exactly observed
this? Can you link to their paper, or provide a reference? How do
you tell how many amino acids are "fairly specified?"
You "look it up" by checking the literature dealing with examples of
evolution in action to see if any of the known examples that we have
produce any novel systems of function that require a minimum
structural threshold of at least 1000aa to work. If you can find just
one example at this level or beyond, you will falsify my position.
Plain and simple. Should be easy to do if in fact any such examples
are known to exist. Good luck . . .
Sean Pitman
www.DetectingDesign.com
.
- Follow-Ups:
- Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- From: Scooter the Mighty
- Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- References:
- A glossary of Pitmanese
- From: richardalanforrest
- Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- From: Seanpit
- Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- From: Scooter the Mighty
- A glossary of Pitmanese
- Prev by Date: Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- Next by Date: Re: should we believe things that cannot reliably be supported merely
- Previous by thread: Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- Next by thread: Re: A glossary of Pitmanese
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|