ID musings

[Steve Manning]

At 07:13 PM 1/14/2005 -0800, Curtis Clark wrote:
>I was giving a guest lecture about photosynthesis last quarter, and I
>pointed out that one of the best arguments against intelligent design is
>RuBisCO, the enzyme that fixes CO2 in photosynthesis. It is one of the
>most abundant proteins, and the most abundant enzyme, in nature, it has
>a reaction rate ten to a hundred times slower than your average enzyme,
>and it will give up on the reaction, and even run backwards, if the
>substrate concentration runs low. If RuBisCo were an employee, it would
>be the boss's idiot nephew. RuBisCo makes sense in the evolutionary
>context of using what you've got, but if I were an intelligent designer,
>I'd be ashamed to have created RuBisCO.

That is assuming designing something to be efficient is an intelligent
thing to do!  (Maybe it would be less fun that way for the designer to
contemplate).


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Dr. Steve Manning
Arkansas State University--Beebe
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