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To: Tantumergo
Yes, read some of Michael Behe's work in microbiology and biochemistry. How familiar are you with DNA structure and function and the processes by which DNA/RNA is transcribed for polypeptide/protein production?

Could you explain to me how Behe's research, which has largely been on the physical chemistry of DNA, shows that species did not evolve from each other?

BTW, don't be afraid to use big words; I've been doing research in a very similar area to Behe for 20 years or so.

213 posted on 05/25/2005 9:21:48 AM PDT by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor

"Could you explain to me how Behe's research, which has largely been on the physical chemistry of DNA, shows that species did not evolve from each other?"

I wasn't saying that this is what Behe's research shows. As you are no doubt aware, his work is more related to the structure and operation of sub-cellular organelles.

However, if you are expert in this field, perhaps you can answer a question which I have wondered about for a long time?

Why does a group of 3 nucleotides, when read by a ribosome, encode for a particular amino acid?


221 posted on 05/25/2005 9:51:07 AM PDT by Tantumergo
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To: Right Wing Professor

There's that obfuscation issue again.

Does 'evolution' mean that allele frequence (and with it phenotypic frequency) exhibits dynamics? The theory of common descent? Or the completeness and sufficiency of the neo-Darwinian synthesis as an explanation for all observed biological dynamics and organismic traits?

As I understand it Behe only claims to challenge the last of these.


261 posted on 05/25/2005 10:54:26 AM PDT by The_Reader_David (Christ is Risen! Christos Anesti! Khristos Voskrese! Al-Masih Qam! Hristos a Inviat!)
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