(April 9, 2016 at 11:55 pm)AAA Wrote: And I don't know how nylonase was formed, but I bet it wasn't mutation or a gene duplication. It was probably just a different organization of existing proteins that allowed it to do it. I'm not too familiar with it, so sorry if that is way off.
A "different organization of existing proteins" is exactly the phenomenon I've been describing, by which mutations allow existing systems to shift to a new task (a problem which gene duplication makes much easier, since the un-mutated version of the gene keeps right on doing what it was doing within the cell, while the new variant performs a new task).
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
