SJ quotes ReMine:
<" They do not allow error catastrophe, which normally would cause a
degradation away from any target sequence-no matter how severe the
selection...." (ReMine W.J., "The Biotic Message," 1993, p232)
I did several searches on 'error catastrophe' in both the scientific
literature and on the web. Only in creationist-related materials did I find
anything about 'error catastrophe' that means anything close to what ReMine
and friends seem to think/want it to mean. Two very interesting things came
up -
http://telomeres.virtualave.net/error.html
The Error Catastrophe Theory of Aging
...In other words, the DNA is in perfect condition, but something happens
during the making of the proteins that causes them to be defective...
Because the error rate does not occur for the majority of the proteins
tested, it is unlikely that translational errors are the sole cause of aging.
Or perhaps:
http://library.thinkquest.org/10120/cyber/glossary.html#Error
Catastrophe Theory - Error Catastrophe Theory
Damage to mechanisms that synthesize proteins results in faulty proteins
which accumulate to a level that causes catastrophic damage to cells,
tissues, and organs.
AND
‰¥þ To this day, there is no experimental evidence that error catastrophe
exists. It is totally theoretical," he [Professor Lowenstein] admits.‰¥ÿ
But, since its in a book purporting ot have 'disproved' evolution, it MUST be
right, especially since the author has a patent on some part of an MRI
machine.....
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