{"id":6554,"date":"2009-09-29T19:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/09\/29\/intelligent-design-vs-evolutio\/"},"modified":"2009-09-29T19:38:17","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:38:17","slug":"intelligent-design-vs-evolutio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/intelligent-design-vs-evolutio\/","title":{"rendered":"Intelligent Design vs. Evolution:  Evolution wins again."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>An international team of researchers, including Monash University biochemists, has discovered evidence at the molecular level in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; that it happened &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Trevor Lithgow said the breakthrough, funded by the Australian Research Council and published recently in the prestigious journal PNAS, provides a blueprint for a general understanding of the evolution of the &#8220;machinery&#8221; of our cells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our cells, and the cells of all organisms, are composed of molecular machines. These machines are built of component parts, each of which contributes a partial function or structural element to the machine. How such sophisticated, multi-component machines could evolve has been somewhat mysterious, and highly controversial.&#8221; Professor Lithgow said.<\/p>\n<p>A non-Darwinian explanation, from believers of Intelligent Design, proposed these complex machines to be &#8220;irreducibly complex&#8221;. In other words they are so neatly complex and complete that they couldn&#8217;t have evolved but rather must have been designed by an intelligent entity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our research shows that these machines although complete and complex, were a result of evolution.<br \/>\nSimple &#8221;core&#8221; machines were established in the first eukaryotes by drawing on pre-existing proteins that had previously provided distinct, simplistic functions. They therefore stand as proof that Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution breaks down at the molecular level,&#8221; Professor Lithgow said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news172145598.html\">More details here.  <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers, including Monash University biochemists, has discovered evidence at the molecular level in support of one of the key tenets of Darwin&#8217;s theory of evolution. &#8230; that it happened &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1HI","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}