[[Not content with achieving one hallmark of life in the lab, Joyce and Lincoln sought to evolve their molecule by natural selection. They did this by mutating sequences of the RNA building blocks, so that 288 possible ribozymes could be built by mixing and matching different pairs of shorter RNAs.
What came out bore an eerie resemblance to Darwin’s theory of natural selection: a few sequences proved winners, most losers. The victors emerged because they could replicate fastest while surrounded by competition, Joyce says.]]
Hmmmm- Swell, but like the link Coyote posts abotu the supposed rise in non intelligent complexity which uses a very sophisticated software program to preprogram certain outcomes, while protecting hte process from any unwanted bad effects, were Joyce’s experiments also tightly and intelligently controlled? Protecting certain outcomes until the desired results arose? Article doesn’t say, but I’ll bet this is the case-
[[Joyce says his team has endowed its molecule with another function, although he will not say what that might be before his findings are published.]]
Yup- Another unrealistic attempt to kick God out of creation by intelligently designing systems under strict scientifically sterile lab conditions-
[[More fundamentally, to mimic biology, a molecule must gain new functions on the fly, without laboratory tinkering. Joyce says he has no idea how to clear this hurdle with his team’s RNA molecule. “It doesn’t have open-ended capacity for Darwinian evolution.”]]
Woopsie- another dead end for Macroevolution- surprised this admission wasn’t written in microscopic letters and at the end of the article under a list of intelligence endowed contribotors to the project
[[”If somebody makes something great in the lab, it’s fantastic. But really the origin of life on Earth is an historical problem that we’re never going to be able to witness and verify,” he says.]]
Oh Darn!
On a more scientifically important point, I’ve created the perpetual motion machine- the only problem is that it needs energy to keep going, but by golly it’s a perpetual motion machine none-the-less- I declare it so because I got the parts to move!
I guess that means that origins are *not science* after all.
Now we're back to square one. Only the theologians have anything approaching an answer.
On a planet before life existed, the surroundings, by logic, would be biologically sterile.
But the true believers buy this crap up in spades.
They look past the extreme manipulation, and see ‘evolution.’
A few months down the road, this will be added to the rest of the ignorant crap at talk.origins as more ‘proof’ of evolution.