New Cellular Animation: Journey Inside the Cell

_{Jack Cole

August 10, 2009

Intelligent Design, Video}

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Dr. Stephen Meyer, author of Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design, narrates a new video illustrating evidence for intelligent design within the cell. This excellent new video illustrates aspects of the role of information in the cell including protein synthesis.

From Evolution News and Views:

“This video is going to make things worse for critics of intelligent design,” Dr. Meyer explains. “They will have more difficulty convincing the public that their eyes are deceiving them when the evidence for design literally unfolds before them in this animation.”

Narrated by Meyer, the video is a short tour of the molecular labyrinth, the cell’s sophisticated information-processing system, which not only produces machines, but also reproduces itself.

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Mr DATCG, Anyone with a modern graphics card or a PS3 can join Folding@Home and participate in this kind of research! It is a great way to contribute spare cycles to science.Nakashima_{August 10, 2009
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FreshVoice, Cool... didn't see your post. And the nanoscale size is actually measured in Angstroms, .1 nanometers. less than a billionth of a meter. Curious to see how they did with the Ribosome.DATCG_{August 10, 2009
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Correction, the simulation was about binding sites, several nanoseconds to bind. But watch how they run the simulation and after binding takes place. There is another movie they created for the simulation of gateway entry into the nucleus here: See Movie: Bouncer of the Nucleus or click on the Purple Bouncer Monster pic for movie half way down the page.DATCG_{August 10, 2009
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BTW... Looking for examples of how fast these operations take place within the cell and scientific inquiry I found an interesting site. Nanoseconds for cell entry. It takes a 20Terraflop Cray to simulate the Cell Gates The scientist involved in the simulations comment:
The life sciences, says Klaus Schulten, are moving on to bigger things. When it comes to understanding processes in living systems at the molecular level, it’s become possible — thanks to technology such as the Cray XT3 — to look at very large systems, of which the nuclear pore is one example. “The XT3,” says Schulten, “is a terrific computer platform for this new generation of work.” Encouraged by success with the NPC, Schulten has (as of late August 2006) begun to use his powerful software NAMD on PSC’s XT3 to simulate the ribosome. This huge aggregate protein-RNA assembly is a cellular factory that reads the genetic blueprint from messenger RNA and uses it to manufacture proteins. “It’s possible to do this now with the XT3.” Schulten’s MD simulations of the ribosome (2.7 million atoms) are using NAMD with 1,000 XT3 processors — unprecedented large-scale parallelism for molecular dynamics. Because of the XT3’s fast inter-processor communication, NAMD can use the entire system efficiently, 2,000 processors, for a single simulation. “This is just the right system for this kind of project,” says Schulten. “If you have a tennis racquet, it has a sweet spot where you can hit best, and for this project the sweet spot is the entire XT3 at Pittsburgh.”
Big Ben - Cray XT3 20 Terraflop MPP - Massively Parallel Processor A simulation of a nanoscale processer(cellular functions like Ribosomes or Cell entry) running in nanoseconds that must decrypt passing mRna, tRna, etc., requires a 20 Terraflop Mega Fast Parallel processing device that takes the best engineers in the world to create. Why? Why so much processing power is required for cellular technology? Ooops, there's the rub - "technology" - in the cell, a signature of technology and motors, communicators, translators, editors, feedback loops, and transporters. All a mutated, unguided process? A process that in this video narrated by Meyer mentions gateway keepers that require screening of information and agents to pass into the cell. So what was first? The Password gated entry? Or the transport with a password? How did anything transport into a cell before a Gatekeeper entry system existed without killing the cell? Or, damaging it, mutating it to the point of reproductionless cellular gloop? Truth is no one knows, can't explain it, except for... Accidents Did "It." That is the Darwinist answer. Accidents happen, or in the PZ Meyers vernacular of teaching his students, horse____ happens. They think as one of the materialist accidents this is a better answer than intelligence did it. Why? There's no evidence in these simulations of accidents. None. Ramdom mutations for what? For a Keyed entry system? Or the entry transport? Both at the same time? How long before the cell dies while it is waiting on the correct alignment of 2.7million atoms? Their answer(s) are no better than the IDist, they infer an accidentall beginning because in the beginning they didn't know any better than to repeat darwin. Times changing with new technology, mega computers, etc., now to understand and "reverse engineer" engineered systems is the way forward. This does not even get into the signaling systems for the calls between cells and different processes.DATCG_{August 10, 2009
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#5... oops 1800 bases per minute (not second)FreshVoice_{August 10, 2009
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#4 Excellent suggestion. The speed at which this happens is incredible... approximately 1800 bases per second for RNA polymerase II, the enzyme that transcribes mRNA. Or better, about 30 bases per second, faster than most video frame rates! Excellent video!FreshVoice_{August 10, 2009
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Good quality. Is this on Youtube? Should be, as well as other major video sites. Twitter too. This short clip had a speeding up of ribosome actions and amino acid sequencing. A small suggestion. This is good. Speed it up real-time. Warn the viewer, give the actual nanoseconds and microsecond times of each action(or total time elapsed), then show it slo-mo, half-speed, then real-time. Show error correction slo-mo, then speed up in increments to realtime editing and correction. Most people have no idea how fast these processes are in functional exchanges between each networked area, communication and physical interactions for detection, reading, creation and signals. People get use to slow motion details on TV or movies, like a baseball pitch replay for example. However, if they were the actual batter or umpire, they'd understand the difficulty of calling strikes/balls of a 95mph fastball cutter, an 85mph slider, or 78mph curve ball. Now imagine trying to hit one. This is what unfolds in our trillions of cells daily. Nanoscale/Nanosecond/Microsecond accuracy of a batter knocking a grandslam(99.999/hundred times) out of the park bottom of the 9th, with 2 outs in the 7th game of the world series. This simple analogy fails in one way. When this batter in a cell misses? It requeues the ball as if this is childs play in t-ball little league and hits amino acid out of the park again. In baseball, the batter strikes out. In the cell, amino acids are edited all the time for accuracy. As a suggestion show the process real time. Prepare the viewer, show slow motion, speed up by half, then real time. Most people will be floored at the speed of the process and how much the graphic artist has slowed down these processes. Great job guys!DATCG_{August 10, 2009
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Dear Megan, Are we going to be treated to evidence of how this came about without design in your next post?GilDodgen_{August 10, 2009
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Is the actual evidence for design in part 2?MeganC_{August 10, 2009
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This video is simply excellent in detail,,,bornagain77_{August 10, 2009
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