ID musings

[Arthur Chapman> <with opt1 DIGEST]

And how about reproduction?

That has got to be one of the most inefficient and poorly designed systems one could possibly imagine!  I guess it has worked over the millenia, but that must be more by good luck than efficient design! Think about it!

Arthur

>From Richard Jensen <rjensen at SAINTMARYS.EDU> on 17 Jan 2005:

> It's relatively easy to come up with examples of poor design (e.g., what
> "engineer" in his right mind would utilize the same pathway for air and
> food
> intake, given the numerous opportunities for choking death that arise
> from
> this).  Unfortunately, such arguments are generally wasted - the true
> believer doesn't question the reasoning of the designer; there was some
> greater purpose at work here.
>
> Gasping for air as I eat my bana..........,
>
> Dick
>
>
>
> Steve Manning wrote:
>
> > 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).
> >
> > >--
> > >Curtis Clark                  http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/
> > >Web Coordinator, Cal Poly Pomona                 +1 909 979 6371
> > >Professor, Biological Sciences                   +1 909 869 4062
> >
> > Dr. Steve Manning
> > Arkansas State University--Beebe
> > Mathematics and Science
> > Professor of Biology
> > P.O. Box 1000
> > Beebe, AR  72012
> > Phone: 501-882-8203
> > Fax: 501-882-4437
>
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>