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To: Chickensoup
Behe, in his book... I have never found any one who has actually refuted his work.

All you have to do is Google "behe" and this link is the first one to come up. Now that wasn't hard was it? Have fun!

62 posted on 08/12/2005 4:26:43 AM PDT by shuckmaster
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To: shuckmaster

I have taken a cursory look at your link and its links and read one of the papers that was cited almost gleefully:

"Determining the protein responsible for torque generation in Escherichia coli: a review of a paper from the Journal of Bacteriology -As a side-note, a number of sources that discuss flagellar mechanics are written by people who claim it as proof that bacteria were divinely created, rather than evolving, because of a principle called ‘irreducible complexity’, which claims that the flagellar structure is too complicated to have evolved, as it requires correct functioning of a large number of proteins, specifically including FliG, FliM, and FliN. The argument seems to run as follows: unnecessary genes randomly mutate, and it is unlikely in the extreme that all 40 (the number typically cited) of the proteins necessary for flagellar function could have somehow suddenly appeared at the same time and in the correct manner to form a macrostructure like the flagellum. No mention is made that Helicobacter pylori gets by with 33 proteins. One implication of this paper is that it is not necessary for FliM and FliN to be strictly conserved, but FliG must be basically invariant, reducing the number of strictly necessary proteins by another two."
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The author is saying that irreducable complexity is somehow in question because instead of 40 protiens commonly cited in ID (?) literature, a certain different bacteria uses 33. It doesn't compute.

I will read more on the site later.


90 posted on 08/12/2005 8:46:44 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Mmmmmmm! Mmmmmmm! Good!)
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