amino acid sequences,
antibodies,
chemical activities,
Dan Tawfik,
DNA,
Douglas Axe,
English,
HisA enzyme,
Intelligent Design,
Journal of Molecular Biology,
Niagara Falls,
proteins,
RNA,
sentences,
wheelbarrow,
β-lactamase enzyme
In previous articles, I demonstrated how substantial quantities of biological information cannot emerge through any natural process (see here and here), and I described how such information points to intelligent design. Now, I am addressing the mistakes typically made by critics who challenge these claims (see here, here, here, and here). See my post yesterday, here, on misapplying information theory. A second category of errors relates to arguments against the conclusion that the information content of many proteins is vastly greater than what any undirected process could generate. Most of the critiques are aimed at the research of Douglas Axe that estimated the rarity of amino acid sequences corresponding to a section of a functional β-lactamase enzyme. Many of the attacks result from the skeptics’ failure to properly understand Axe’s…