* just in case you didn't know: "LOCO" is Spanish for "crazy".
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For the "scientist" wannabes here on TWeb - namely, those that accept the edicts of the "scientific" establishment as if coming from a "Supreme Power" - consider a few recent articles on LUCA (last universal common ancestor).
http://theweek.com/speedreads/638809...l-earthly-life
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/sc...stor.html?_r=0
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I wasn't going to waste too much time thinking about this nonsense so I have just ONE question for the wannabes (first, a bit of background):
A quote found in one of the above articles: "The 355 genes ascribable to Luca include some that metabolize hydrogen as a source of energy as well as a gene for an enzyme called reverse gyrase, found only in microbes that live at extremely high temperatures."
Like I said, I wasn't going to waste too much time on this so I considered only one point: reverse gyrase.
Reverse gyrase (RG) is an enzyme (a protein) which, if you're going to accept their story, had to be genetically transmitted to the next generation. This means that it has to be coded. With limited time I could not find the precise length for RG but from what I was able to find (in limited time) it appears to be a chain of amino acids at least 400 units long. Fine, let's use that (it's probably longer than 400 but it won't matter).
RG has been "found" in LUCA. This means that, as per these "scientists", RG appeared just 560 million years after the Earth was formed.
Now, using a 400-long amino acid chain yields 20400 or about 10520 possible amino acid combinations for a chain of that length. In the 560 million years that the RG in LUCA had to form, and at 100 trillion combinations per second, this would result in less than 1030 combinations.
That number, 1030, is an infinitesimal amount compared to 10520. This doesn't even take into account all of the other proteins in LUCA. But let's be gracious and just grant that those others somehow "popped" into existence - let's just consider RG.
Okay, so the question is this: barring "magic", how do YOU account for reverse gyrase? Have fun ...
As for my take, it's quite simple:
LUCA is LOCO - just another one of modern "science's" Alice in Wonderland fantasies for the gullible.
Let's have some SCIENCE here, okay? Anything else shall be called out / booted out immediately.
Jorge
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For the "scientist" wannabes here on TWeb - namely, those that accept the edicts of the "scientific" establishment as if coming from a "Supreme Power" - consider a few recent articles on LUCA (last universal common ancestor).
http://theweek.com/speedreads/638809...l-earthly-life
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/26/sc...stor.html?_r=0
.
.
.
I wasn't going to waste too much time thinking about this nonsense so I have just ONE question for the wannabes (first, a bit of background):
A quote found in one of the above articles: "The 355 genes ascribable to Luca include some that metabolize hydrogen as a source of energy as well as a gene for an enzyme called reverse gyrase, found only in microbes that live at extremely high temperatures."
Like I said, I wasn't going to waste too much time on this so I considered only one point: reverse gyrase.
Reverse gyrase (RG) is an enzyme (a protein) which, if you're going to accept their story, had to be genetically transmitted to the next generation. This means that it has to be coded. With limited time I could not find the precise length for RG but from what I was able to find (in limited time) it appears to be a chain of amino acids at least 400 units long. Fine, let's use that (it's probably longer than 400 but it won't matter).
RG has been "found" in LUCA. This means that, as per these "scientists", RG appeared just 560 million years after the Earth was formed.
Now, using a 400-long amino acid chain yields 20400 or about 10520 possible amino acid combinations for a chain of that length. In the 560 million years that the RG in LUCA had to form, and at 100 trillion combinations per second, this would result in less than 1030 combinations.
That number, 1030, is an infinitesimal amount compared to 10520. This doesn't even take into account all of the other proteins in LUCA. But let's be gracious and just grant that those others somehow "popped" into existence - let's just consider RG.
Okay, so the question is this: barring "magic", how do YOU account for reverse gyrase? Have fun ...
As for my take, it's quite simple:
LUCA is LOCO - just another one of modern "science's" Alice in Wonderland fantasies for the gullible.
Let's have some SCIENCE here, okay? Anything else shall be called out / booted out immediately.
Jorge
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