Remember when evolutionists stated that information flow proceeds from DNA to RNA to proteins? They called it the “Central Dogma” and they envisioned DNA mutations providing the fuel for natural selection to create the species. Then there was reverse transcriptase, a protein machine that inserted RNA into DNA. And then there was alternative splicing where protein machines rearranged RNA. And there was RNA editing, where proteins … Read more
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Just dogma and wishful thinking.
If it’s wrong, it’s not Dogma!
I claim the trademark on that!
In the following podcast, Dr. Sternberg’s emphasis is on ENCODE research, and how that research overturned the ‘central’ importance of the gene as a unit of inheritance. As well he reflects on how that loss of the term ‘gene’ as an accurate description in biology completely undermines the modern synthesis, (i.e. central dogma), of neo-Darwinism as a rational explanation for biology.
A few more related notes on the loss of the term gene as a ‘central’ concept in the dogma of Darwinism:
OT: Electron cryomicroscopy observation of rotational states in a eukaryotic V-ATPase – May 2015
http://www.nature.com/nature/j.....tml#videos
Meet the Souped-up Version of ATP Synthase – June 1, 2015
Excerpt: A new paper in Nature took the closest-ever look at the V-ATPase in yeast cells. Using cryo-electron microscopy, three researchers from Toronto were able to see in unprecedented detail the components of these molecular engines, and for the first time, deduce how they move and work together during operation. Here’s how they compared V-ATPase to the more well-known F-type ATP synthase:
“The eukaryotic V-ATPase is the most complex rotary ATPase: it has three peripheral stalks, a hetero-oligomeric proton-conducting proteolipid ring, several subunits not found in other rotary ATPases, and is regulated by reversible dissociation of its catalytic and proton-conducting regions.”
V-ATPase has two extra stators, looking something like flying buttresses holding the whole machine in place while it whirs along. The carousel-like V0 subunit, with its ten ring segments, “functions as a ten-step motor,” they say. And because it must force protons into the organelle against a strong concentration gradient, the machine is hermetically sealed against leakage.
The illustrations of V-ATPase in the paper are beautiful. The authors also included three video clips: one of the actual motors in situ, and two animations showing how the parts interact.
http://www.evolutionnews.org/2.....96471.html
I think when recounting the annihilation (so condign) of their central dogmas, it adds a certain piquancy if you can interject in your recounting of said annihilation, the words of Max Miller, a forties British comedian: ‘No. Don’t laugh…’. Apparently, there is a word for such deliberate inversions of meaning, but I can’t remember it.
dogma and bias trump science in this world. You all know this.