Marty's testable ID hypothesis

Marty, there’s absolutely nothing arrogant about my pointing out the falsehood of your claim. I’m an expert, you are not. Do you dispute that?

I’ve found that arrogant people, after being questioned on a claim, attempt to shift the evidentiary burden.

I’ve also found that arrogant people move goalposts and use the straw man fallacy often, even stacking two fallacies! Why did quaternary structure and catalytic activity disappear from your claim?

I’m pointing out that the falsehood of your unsupported, global claim is far more fundamental (and revealing) than that.

When we design machines, we control them by turning them on. You have unwittingly affirmed that this is an integral part of your design hypothesis by misrepresenting the way that things work in real time. As a scientist who constantly questions my own assumptions, it is easy to see that your false claim is merely a prediction of your design hypothesis.

Muscle myosins are hexamers. The heavy chains dimerize by a very long, alpha-helical coiled-coil “tail”. We can remove that dimerization (a major part of its quaternary structure) by cleavage with a protease. Your hypothesis very clearly predicts that no catalytic activity would remain.

We can remove the two light chains from the remaining trimeric “S1” fragments that no longer dimerize, completely destroying ALL quaternary structure. Your hypothesis very clearly predicts that no catalytic activity would remain.

Evolution is more constrained than design, so it tends to build complex mechanisms differently.

Now, how about providing 5 cases (not hearsay, but evidence) that you know to be consistent with your global design hypothesis:

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