Researchers studying quantum tunneling within DNA implicate these effects as a possible cause of point mutations, and believe it or not, as a possible aid to the origin of life. At the same time, the researchers cite “highly efficient DNA repair mechanisms” within our our DNA replication machinery that “includes a ‘proofreading’ ability, in which mistakes are detected and corrected.” Sounds like further evidence of an intelligently designed system.
Theoretical research suggests that quantum effects could drive mutations in human DNA. This is the latest development in an emerging field called quantum biology.
The mechanism involves proton transfer through quantum tunnelling, a process that occurs in one-quadrillionth of a second. Cells have built-in proofreading systems that help prevent these mutations.
Could quantum mechanics — a field that Albert Einstein once derided as “spooky” — affect us in a highly personal way? Quite possibly. Theoretical research is beginning to suggest that quantum effects could drive mutations in human DNA. If true, this could change how we understand cancer, genetic disease, and even the origins of life.
Scientists once thought biological systems too warm, wet, and chaotic to experience weird quantum effects like proton tunneling, in which the particle’s waveform spreads out, allowing it to blip across an energy barrier that would normally block its passage. Generally, the more heat and chaos around, the smaller the quantum effect; so, for many years, scientists thought that in the human body quantum behaviors would be too small to matter.
But you can’t find what you aren’t looking for. As quantum physicists start to poke at the messy and complex world of biology, they are finding quantum mechanics at play, even within our DNA. Welcome to the world of quantum biology.
Quantum biology
For 50 years, researchers have debated whether protons switching positions between weakly bound strands of DNA could cause point mutations. The answer seemed like no. Many studies have concluded that the intermediate base-pair states created by proton switching were too unstable and short-lived to be replicated in the DNA. But a new study published in the journal Communications Physics finds that these states can be frequent and stable, and that quantum processes may drive their formation.
Instead of preventing protons from tunnelling, our biological warmth may act as a source of thermal activation, giving protons enough energy to pop over to the other side [of a G:C base-pair]. Indeed, proton transfer through quantum tunnelling is four times more likely than predicted by classical physics. Not only are these occurrences common, but they are also long-lived. Based on previous computational studies, the researchers predict that these molecular changes should be stable long enough to be replicated — causing a mutation.
Based on the team’s calculations, point mutations should appear in our DNA much more frequently than they do. The researchers attribute this difference to “highly efficient DNA repair mechanisms” that find and undo the damage. For instance, our DNA replication machinery includes a “proofreading” ability, in which mistakes are detected and corrected — sort of like a typo. Thank goodness for biological copy editors.
The ease of proton tunneling and the longevity of these intermediate states might even be relevant to studies on the origin of life, the researchers write, because the rate of early evolution is linked to the mutation rate of single-stranded RNA. Thus, though the quantum world might seem weird and distant, it might have played a role in giving us life — and also taking it away.
Big Think
Doesn’t make sense . Quantum tunneling creates point mutations and point mutations creates repair mechanisms and repair mechanisms repair point mutations? I don’t think so . Looks like materialist agenda for me.
Secondly we don’t really know what is “a mutation” in the context of “nothing is random inside cell.” Could be algorithms of fine-tuning , editing, reorganising(darwinist’ explanations of “neutral mutations” doesn’t make sense -because ignore proofreading, repairing mechanisms)
Quantum effects are at play on a far larger ‘macroscopic’ scale in biology than just being a potential source for point mutations at the microscopic scale.
As the following 2006 article entitled ‘Classical and Quantum Information Channels in Protein Chain’ stated, “On the basis of force constants, displacements of each atom in peptide plane, and time of action we found that the value of the peptide plane action is close to the Planck constant. This indicates that peptide plane from the energy viewpoint possesses synergetic classical/quantum properties.”
Moreover, the following 2015 article, entitled “Quantum coherent-like state observed in a biological protein for the first time”, stated, “If you take certain atoms and make them almost as cold as they possibly can be, the atoms will fuse into a collective low-energy quantum state called a Bose-Einstein condensate. In 1968 physicist Herbert Fröhlich predicted that a similar process at a much higher temperature could concentrate all of the vibrational energy in a biological protein into its lowest-frequency vibrational mode. Now scientists in Sweden and Germany have the first experimental evidence of such so-called Fröhlich condensation (in proteins).,,,”
And in the following 2015 paper entitled, “Quantum criticality in a wide range of important biomolecules” it was found that “Most of the molecules taking part actively in biochemical processes are tuned exactly to the transition point and are critical conductors,” and the researchers further commented that “finding even one (biomolecule) that is in the quantum critical state by accident is mind-bogglingly small and, to all intents and purposes, impossible.,, of the order of 10^-50 of possible small biomolecules and even less for proteins,”,,,
,,, “of the order of 10^-50 of possible small biomolecules and even less for proteins,” is, obviously, very antagonistic to Darwinian presuppositions. As this follow up 2018 article stated, “There is no obvious evolutionary reason why a protein should evolve toward a quantum-critical state, and there is no chance at all that the state could occur randomly.,,,”
As well, DNA itself does not belong to the world of classical mechanics but instead belongs to the world of quantum mechanics. In the following video, at the 22:20 minute mark, Dr Rieper shows why the high temperatures of biological systems do not prevent DNA from having quantum entanglement and then at 24:00 minute mark Dr Rieper goes on to remark that practically the whole DNA molecule can be viewed as quantum information with classical information embedded within it.
What is so devastating to Darwinian presuppositions with the (empirical) finding of pervasive quantum coherence and/or quantum entanglement within molecular biology, is that quantum coherence and/or quantum entanglement is a non-local, beyond space and time, effect that requires a beyond space and time cause in order to explain its existence. As the following paper entitled “Looking beyond space and time to cope with quantum theory” stated, “Our result gives weight to the idea that quantum correlations somehow arise from outside spacetime, in the sense that no story in space and time can describe them,”
Moreover, as the following study found, the greater the number of particles in a quantum hypergraph state, (which is exactly the type of quantum coherence that we have with biological molecules), the more strongly it violates local realism, with the strength increasing exponentially with the number of particles.
Darwinists, with their reductive materialistic framework, and especially with the falsification of ‘hidden variables’, simply have no beyond space and time cause that they can appeal so as to be able to explain the non-local quantum coherence and/or entanglement that is now found to be ubiquitous within biology.
Whereas, on the other hand, the Christian Theist readily does have a beyond space and time cause that he can appeal to so as to explain quantum entanglement. As Colossians 1:17 states, “He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
Further evidence that quantum effects are not limited to the microscopic scale of biology but are also at play at the macroscopic scale is revealed by the following.
The following article on human vision stated that, “Research,, has shown that humans can detect the presence of a single photon, the smallest measurable unit of light”.,,, “it is remarkable: a photon, the smallest physical entity with quantum properties of which light consists, is interacting with a biological system consisting of billions of cells, all in a warm and wet environment,”,, and the researched added, “The response that the photon generates survives all the way to the level of our awareness despite the ubiquitous background noise. Any man-made detector would need to be cooled and isolated from noise to behave the same way.”,,, “What we want to know next is how does a biological system achieve such sensitivity? How does it achieve this in the presence of noise?”
Moreover, in the following article it is noted that Multielectrode recordings have revealed zero time lag synchronization among remote cerebral cortical areas.
As the following article states, “It’s certainly true that electrical activity in the brain is synchronised over distances that cannot be easily explained. Electrical signals travel too slowly to do this job, so something else must be at work.,,,”
As well, evidence strongly suggesting that quantum mechanisms must be at play on the macroscopic level of the human body is also revealed in the following article where it is shown that a subject perceives a sensory stimulus on the skin at the moment the skin is touched, before the stimulus reaches the brain and before full deliberative consciousness occurs.
As Libet himself remarked, “In spite of the delay for a sensory experience, subjectively there appears to be no delay.”
To repeat what was stated earlier, “Electrical signals travel too slowly to do this job, so something else must be at work.,,,”
Moreover, it is also interesting to point out that Darwinian materialists have no realistic clue why our material bodies, (conservatively estimated to contain at least a billion trillion molecules), should even ‘cohere’ as a single unified whole.
As Stephen Talbott succinctly puts the dilemma for Darwinists, “the question, rather, is why things don’t fall completely apart — as they do, in fact, at the moment of death. What power holds off that moment — precisely for a lifetime, and not a moment longer? Despite the countless processes going on in the cell, and despite the fact that each process might be expected to “go its own way” according to the myriad factors impinging on it from all directions, the actual result is quite different.”
In short, ‘non-local’ quantum coherence/entanglement of the entire human body provides a satisfactory answer to the question of, “why (don’t) things fall completely apart — as they do, in fact, at the moment of death. What power holds off that moment — precisely for a lifetime, and not a moment longer?”
it is also important to realize that quantum information, unlike classical information, is physically conserved. As the following article states, In the classical world, information can be copied and deleted at will. In the quantum world, however, the conservation of quantum information means that information cannot be created nor destroyed.
The implication of finding ‘non-local’, (beyond space and time), and ‘conserved’, (cannot be created nor destroyed), quantum information in molecular biology on such a massive scale, ‘in every important biomolecule in our bodies’, is fairly, and pleasantly, obvious.
That pleasant implication, of course, being the fact that we now have very strong empirical evidence proving that we do indeed have a transcendent, metaphysical, component to our being, a “soul”, that is capable of living beyond the death of our material bodies.
As Stuart Hameroff succinctly stated in the following article, “the quantum information,,, isn’t destroyed. It can’t be destroyed.,,, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body. Perhaps indefinitely as a soul.”
Personally, I consider these recent findings from quantum biology to rival all other scientific discoveries over the past century. Surpassing even the discovery of a beginning of the universe, via Big Bang cosmology, in terms of scientific, theological, and even personal, significance.
As Jesus once asked his disciples, along with a crowd of followers, “Is anything worth more than your soul?”
Verse:
Soon you gonna say quantum is god therefore god become an entity to be studied by physicists. Maybe your intentions are honorable but you try to transform religion in science . I don’t think Jesus intended that.
LCD, “but you try to transform religion in(to) science”
Despite the false warfare thesis that is constantly promulgated by atheists, religion and science are not now, nor have they ever been, antagonistic towards each other. In fact Judeo-Christian presuppositions lay at the founding of, (and still are very much essential to the continued successful practice of), modern science.
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It is no false warfare thesis judging by the persistent campaign conducted here against the “clowns” who support the theory of evolution which, apparently, is viewed as an existential threat to religious beliefs,
It shouldn’t be a warfare although people on both sides often act like it is.
Sev: “It is no false warfare thesis” (that is constantly promulgated by atheists),,
Well actually there certainly is a false warfare thesis constantly promulgated by atheists, despite Severely predictable denial to the contrary,,,
Also see Stephen Meyer’s recent video where he also mentions the false warfare thesis of atheists:
And again, modern science is vitally dependent on presuppositions that can only be grounded within Theistic metaphysics
Seversky it’s impossible to take grants or to keep a job or publish something in per-review if you don’t sign a contract with Darwin’s fable. In real life science is a dictature of materialists. You have to sell your conscience if you want a career in science.
Seversky
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you got it all wrong again …
New discoveries in biology are an existential threat to the theory of evolution … and you guys know that, that is the reason why you insult people who don’t buy this crazy absurd theory … it looks so bad for you guys … you are getting very nervous … you [clowns] have to advocate for very absurd things, getting more absurd every new day … you look more stupid every new day …
Seversky, what do you think ? how will all this end ? :))))))
Perhaps the clowns should get together and formulate a scientific theory of evolution
Most people want the truth. To understand how things – tangible things – really are. Everything we see, including under a microscope, is made of atoms. But atoms are made of sub-atomic particles and held together by the “strong force” and “weak force.” Of course, living things participate in sub-atomic actions referred to as quantum mechanics. These interactions at the sub-atomic level must be precise or they will not work or work correctly.
Evolution is the atheist version of events. It helps to uphold the view that human beings are just another animal and our appearance on earth was just an accident. To all reading – Is that true?