David Campbell wrote:
>
> Looking for papers related to bivalve evolution, I ran across something
> relevant to the irreducible complexity issue. Melendez-Hevia, Waddell, and
> Cascante. 1996. The puzzle of the Krebs citric acid cycle: assembling the
> pieces of chemically feasible reactions, and opportunism in the design of
> metabolic pathways during evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution,
> 43:293-303. The discussion of the mechanisms and functionality of the
> intermediates is sufficiantly detailed to require more review of organic
> chemistry than I am inclined to until after my dissertation is turned in.
> They also cite assorted previous papers on the evolution of this and other
> complex biochemical cycles such as the Calvin cycle.
>
> Given the progress being made in molecular biology, I suspect that the gaps
> will generally be narrowing if not closing.
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When Urey made amino acids the evolutionary world thought that the gad
was closing.
this was far from true and I would not be so confident that you will not
yet
find additional complexities going forward.
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Thus, it is particularly
> important to emphasize that everything is intelligently designed in the
> sense that God created it, whatever the means. Whether irreducible
> complexity is real ought to be a debate about God's methods, not an
> apologetic issue.
>
> David C.
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God's owership is certainly not an issue for me but the need for a God
(ID)
is the issue outside of the brotherhood.
Bert M
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