A Cell's Private Life: Researchers Peer Inside a Hidden Protein

I've had molecular pharmacology I & II at UCSD a few years back. It was fascinating. So much so that I took a class in advanced vertebrate immunology. In none of the many lectures in those 3 classes did the profs address macroevolution. As a biologist I really would like to know a darwinian step-by-step explanation of how - for e.g. - a calcium sensing domain can appear by random mutation(s). Help me in my unbelief.

No way will I help you with your belief in Jehovah. You have to patch the flaws yourself.

Mutation is random but selection is NON-random. All modern cells have ports, both in and out. All that is needed for a channel to specialize is that a mutation in a channel be conserved because it helps survival. The first organism with such a development will have an advantage over those that do not have it. This works for any such specialization whether it be for chloride ion or calcium.

Of course the first step in such specialization is having at least one duplicate of the original gene. This sort of doubling can happen by either copying a section of the DNA more than once or by copying a whole chromosome or in bacteria a plasmid ring.

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That is likely to break so here it is in two lines.
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And another
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Two line version
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Basically you simply don't want to think about how it could happen. Much like Dr. Behe. He can't imagine things because he doesn't want to. His chapter on the Bombadier Beetle shows this quite clearly. And his chapter on the clotting cascade shows his refusal to think about the conditions that existed when it clotting became a important. Not once did he bother notice that early on organisms would not have been completely dependent on blood for survival.

The real question is not whether it could have evolved but why do you think it couldn't. The answer is clearly that you have a purely religious aversion to the whole concept of evolution.

Do you really believe there was world wide flood covering the highest mountains?

Will you ever actually discuss any of this or are you just going to continue with the hit and run posts?

Ethelred