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Proteins Can Tie Knots (blindfolded, and with no hands!)
CEH ^ | November 18, 2008

Posted on 11/19/2008 7:44:41 AM PST by GodGunsGuts

Your job today is to invent a chain that can tie itself in a knot. The chain can contain little magnets and electrical parts, but when you let go of the ends, a knot will spontaneously form. This means that one end must form a loop and the other end must thread the loop. Give up? Maybe you should learn how cells do it...

(Excerpt) Read more at creationsafaris.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: creation; evolution; intelligentdesign; yibk

1 posted on 11/19/2008 7:44:42 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: gondramB; editor-surveyor; metmom; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; GourmetDan; MrB; valkyry1; ...

ping!


2 posted on 11/19/2008 7:45:16 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Well, they’re one step ahead of our astronauts.......


3 posted on 11/19/2008 7:45:46 AM PST by Red Badger (Never has a man risen so far, so fast and is expected to do so much, for so many, with so little...)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Evolution is awesome. No wonder God chose it as the way to get things done.


4 posted on 11/19/2008 7:47:09 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Yes, but can they UNTIE knots?

“...and now, Harry Proteini, held firmly in place by several layers of molecular bonds , will escape from this locked cell”...


5 posted on 11/19/2008 7:53:22 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Red Badger

That right there is FUNNY...

...I don’t care WHO ya’ are.


6 posted on 11/19/2008 7:53:51 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: Moonman62
Fixed it:

Evolution is awesome. No wonder God chose created it as the way to get things done.

Much better...

7 posted on 11/19/2008 7:54:13 AM PST by null and void (Hypothetically speaking, how do you make Molotov Cocktails when everything comes in plastic bottles?)
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To: GodGunsGuts
Visit the Free Republic Folding @ Home Page for more info on protein folding.

8 posted on 11/19/2008 7:56:36 AM PST by zeugma (Who is John Galt?)
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To: GodGunsGuts

re: http://creationsafaris.com/

Lolz at the fake science site for lunatic Christians.


9 posted on 11/19/2008 8:10:39 AM PST by Eddeche
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To: Eddeche

The real moon-howlers are those who try to convince themselves and others that blind chance can produce supersophisticated, autopietic bionanomachines that merely give the “appearance” of design.


10 posted on 11/19/2008 8:27:21 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: WayneS

I actually got a chuckle out of that one :o)


11 posted on 11/19/2008 8:28:36 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: Moonman62

Then why are the vast majority of elite scientists atheists???


12 posted on 11/19/2008 8:32:38 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts

Thanks for the ping!


13 posted on 11/19/2008 8:40:45 AM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: GodGunsGuts
Your job today is to invent a chain that can tie itself in a knot. The chain can contain little magnets and electrical parts, but when you let go of the ends, a knot will spontaneously form. This means that one end must form a loop and the other end must thread the loop. Give up? Maybe you should learn how cells do it...

Amazing how much can be achieved when you operate on scales where gravity has negligible effect; the electric charges are dominant forces and energy conservation is near-perfect.

14 posted on 11/19/2008 8:52:18 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
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To: GodGunsGuts

The most elite scientist ever, Albert Einstein, believed in God. And like most theists, he liked to tell God what to do (doesn’t play dice with the universe, regarding quantum mechanics).


15 posted on 11/19/2008 9:28:29 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: GodGunsGuts

Bah, my old highschool girl friend cold tie cherry stems
in an knot with her tongue, she was simply amazing, had
very talented feet too.

I may be old but I have fond memories......and guns.


16 posted on 11/19/2008 9:34:38 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Moonman62

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/jesus/intelligence%20&%20religion.htm


17 posted on 11/19/2008 9:44:40 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: tet68

I should have added that proteins do it with no tongue either :o)


18 posted on 11/19/2008 10:04:43 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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To: GodGunsGuts
Then why are the vast majority of elite scientists atheists???

My guess is it's because organized religion has failed to correlate well with what we can observe in God's creation. In other words, they reject certain man made definitions of God, rather than the actual God.

19 posted on 11/19/2008 11:30:26 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Moonman62

==My guess is it’s because organized religion has failed to correlate well with what we can observe in God’s creation.

Examples?

==In other words, they reject certain man made definitions of God, rather than the actual God.

Are you saying that Einstien’s definition of God is not manmade? Do you consider the Bible’s description of God to be manmade?


20 posted on 11/19/2008 11:50:48 AM PST by GodGunsGuts
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