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To: GodGunsGuts
"This is my thread? Whatever gave you that idea?"

No, I was speaking of this thread, in which you posted this clarion observation:

"Evolvability is thus built-in, and the pre-existing molecular machinery facilitates the incorporation of new DNA sequence changes that occur via recombinations and mutations."
As to this portion of your statement: "... I’m referring to the ability of organisms to redesign targeted genes, and to rearrange regulatory networks, to adapt to environmental stresses on the fly. Not only that, many of these targeted adaptations can be passed on to offspring."

I shall be intrigued to read your paper when it is published.

25 posted on 08/23/2009 7:27:49 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Oh well. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm up to my elbows in forearms.)
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To: NicknamedBob
==No, I was speaking of this thread, in which you posted this clarion observation: "Evolvability is thus built-in, and the pre-existing molecular machinery facilitates the incorporation of new DNA sequence changes that occur via recombinations and mutations."

I wouldn't get to hung up on the word "evolvability", as the author is merely summarizing Kirschner and Gerhart's theory of facilitated variation. Both Kirschner and Gerhart are Evos. Therefore they assume evolution in their otherwise fascinating book. Alex Williams goes on to show why facilitated variation is much better explained by creation/intelligent design. Perhaps William's conclusion, complete with a startling admission from Kirchner and Gerhart, escaped your attention:

"Let’s stand back consider the big picture of how life works at the molecular level.

Life consists of conserved core processes and modular regulatory circuits. All the special properties of the conserved processes had to be in place before regulatory evolution could take place. Where did they come from? ‘They may have emerged together as a suite, for we know of no organism today that lacks any part of the suite.’

‘The novelty and complexity of the cell [the most important conserved core processes that has modular regulatory circuitry built-in] is so far beyond anything inanimate in the world of today that we are left baffled by how it was achieved.’

A living organism is ‘a poised response system [that] responds to mutation by making changes it is largely prepared in advance to make.’ ‘Genetic variation or mutation does not have to be creative; it only needs to trigger the creativity built into the conserved mechanisms.’

It could not be otherwise, because invariable life would soon become extinct.

Who will be game enough to say the words? Only intelligent design can explain such data. There are no naturalistic explanations."

==As to this portion of your statement: "... I’m referring to the ability of organisms to redesign targeted genes, and to rearrange regulatory networks, to adapt to environmental stresses on the fly. Not only that, many of these targeted adaptations can be passed on to offspring." I shall be intrigued to read your paper when it is published.

Surely you have heard of adaptive mutation and epigenetic inheritance????

PS I'm still waiting for your empirical evidence that evolution evolved the ability evolve rapidly. If you don't have the goods, then it comes down to a historical inference to the best explanation, and as the above makes clear, creation/intelligent design wins this contest hands down.

27 posted on 08/23/2009 8:41:52 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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