Mercer
May 15, 2023, 9:17am
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Eddie:
However, if you ever look up the debate with Farina, you will find none of that ambiguity; just razor-sharp precision about molecules, bonds, chirality, what it takes to make the molecules Farina is talking about, etc.
“Razor-sharp precision”? Eddie, you have no clue whether Tour is being precise or not.
Here’s an example of your chemistry acumen:
Meyer’s blatant lie from Signature in the Cell, p. 128:
“A protein within the ribosome known as a peptidyl transferase then catalyzes a polymerization (linking) reaction…”
HHMI
Thomas A. Steitz, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, and Ada E. Yonath awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
“…it shows unambiguously that the ribosome is a ribozyme because we can see where the substrate binds and there’s no protein atom near enough to that site to produce any catalytic activity.
Continuing the discussion from Eddie and others on Meyer's books, ID, and creationism :
He ignores what a scientist who specializes in RNA clearly explains:
Sorry, @pnelson , it’s a ribozyme. An enzyme in which the business of catalysis is done by RNA. THAT is the definition of a ribozyme. An RNA catalyst. The ribosome is a ribozyme. There is really no question about this.
@Eddie , since you seem to agree with @pnelson that ribosomes are not ribozymes, perhaps you can share with the crew here the pieces of data that bring you to this conclusion. I think many would be interested.
Confronted with this blatant falsehood, the razor-sharp Eddie simply regurgitates the lie:
I was not referring to the ribosome as a totality, but to peptidyl transferase, which you went on and on about. It’s an enzyme (an aminoacyltransferase enzyme to be exact), and enzymes are proteins, molecules or macromolecules . My terminology was correct. It’s bad enough that you are a pedant who tries to catch people out on tiny “errors”, but a least you could be an accurate pedant.
There’s also your apparent inability to read/understand the Nick Lane book…
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