Zev Porat

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

The Nylonase Fallacy - Addressing the Myth

(photo - islandcrisis.net)

Nylonase is one of the heroes of modern evolution theorists. According to the claims, bacteria have developed the ability to digest nylon; a material which has not been available until relatively recent times. But is nylonase worthy of the exaggerated claims made to promote it as "evolution observed"?
Bacteria are asexual microorganisms that can rapidly reproduce. While it would appear that bacterial offspring are effectively a clone of the parent, this genetic homogeneity would reduce a bacterial population’s ability to quickly respond to changing environments. Instead, bacteria have numerous mechanisms for introducing genetic variation into a growing population. These mechanisms, combined with their rapid reproduction and large population sizes, enable bacteria to quickly and effectively adapt to a variety of environmental changes.
Believe it or not, these rapid changes have also been observed in people though not exactly the same. In a mere matter of a few weeks, climbers of Mt Everest experience rapid adaptations in their body’s ability to carry oxygen. At 20,000 feet there is half the available oxygen in the air as there is at sea level. So through the act of acclimatizing the person’s red blood cell count doubles. This allows for double the load of oxygen to go through the body and compensates for the lack of oxygen in the air. Without taking the proper measures and waiting the required length of time to allow the body to go through the adaptation process at 20,000 feet the climbers’ lungs would fill with fluid and the person would die further up the mountain.
Even with the adaptation Everest climbers still need assistance from oxygen tanks they carry with them. However there are some people, through repeated Everest climbs, who don’t require any oxygen tanks at all to reach the summit of the tallest mountain on earth. Their bodies have made more lasting refinements to anticipate future attempts. On 8 May 1978, Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) made the first ascent without supplemental oxygen, using the southeast ridge route. On 20 August 1980, Messner reached the summit of the mountain solo for the first time, without supplementary oxygen or support, on the more difficult Northwest route via the North Col to the North Face and the Great Couloir. He climbed for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 6,500 metres (21,300 ft).
Like bacteria, which also make rapid adaptations because of rapid reproduction in environmental condition changes, these humans never exhibit any reason to believe that they ever have been, or ever will be, anything but human. Whether we’re talking about nylonase or E. coli, or any other bacteria we’re always talking about bacteria. They may adapt, change, mutate, or whatever other label one may wish to give it, but whatever the outcome they will always be bacteria.
The Bible predicts this ability to adapt within the created kind. Noah didn’t bring two of every animal onto the ark. He brought two of every “kind” – a broad sampling of animals represented on the earth. These kinds have been mutating and adapting within their created barriers ever since; giving us the wide variety of species we observe today.
Gametic isolation prevents the microbe-to-man evolution myth taught under the guise of science designed to promote the Star Trek fairy tale atheism some believe will someday do away with belief in supernatural realities like heaven and hell, judgment and eternal punishment. There’s the motivation – the narrative for it all.
The new religion sounds very intellectual, very nuanced and out of most people’s reach. So society has given the thinking elite carte blanch – the public trust – the keys to the hope of humanity’s future. They’ve been permitted to hoodwink the masses into believing they are no more than animals that ruin the planet with their parasitic lusts and destructive use of force. They commit fraud in the text books and decry any public inquiry. They take public money to promote lies and deceit.
Evolution theory, with bacteria as its hero and science-fiction as its narrative, is long overdue for its own gate. Like Watergate and Climategate, evolutiongate could be just around the corner.

7 comments:

  1. "microbe-to-man evolution myth"

    You're a macroevolution denier. I wonder how you explain ERVs and Human Chromosome Two.

    I also wonder why you think you know more about biology than all the world's biologists.

    Please read these three posts. Please read to understand and to learn something instead of trying to figure out how to deny it.

    Human chromosome 2 and chimpanzee chromosomes 2p & 2q

    Endogenous Retroviruses make Jeebus cry.

    Why do many whales have legs and pelvic bones separated from the rest of their skeleton? These vestigial organs are powerful evidence for evolution.

    Many people think science deniers like yourself are incurable. I think they're right, but I'm willing to give you a chance to prove them wrong.

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    1. How do you explain how 2 chromosomes fused losing half of each chromosome in the process without killing the organism?
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      Have you seen the pictures of the so-called pelvis and hind legs? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestigiality#mediaviewer/File:Whale_skeleton.png
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      Not only can you not see a pelvis but the so called legs are too far rearward to support weigh correctly.
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      Lastly real science follows the scientific method. Macro evolution is not observable, repeatable, testable, predictable or falsifiable.

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  2. @Human Ape - all of your talking points have been soundly refuted time and time again by real scientists doing real science... which is happily performed without invoking your evolution myth.

    On ERV's -
    http://creation.com/living-fossils-erv-function

    On Whale legs -
    http://creation.com/the-strange-tale-of-the-leg-on-the-whale

    On chromosome fusion -
    http://creation.com/human-ape-fused-chromosomes-paradigm
    http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j19_3/j19_3_4-5.pdf

    The above links are from biologists who accept the surface evidence in nature and refuse the fairytale of evolution. You have nothing... provide something unique which has not been refuted please. And by the way there are many other refutations from other scientists I could quote.

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  3. Creation.com? Seriously?

    How about a link to any respectable peer reviewed journal article that refutes evolution's claims.

    Your claims come from a priori conclusions and that is never the way to do science. "Evolution is a fact" is not an a priori conclusion because I know of no scientist that does that. They hypothesize, look at data and come to conclusions.

    The central "hypothesis" of Creationism is "God is real". I put that in quotes because unlike a scientist creationists never make room for a null hypothesis, ie. "God is not real" (also not worded like a proper hypothesis).

    Can you explain these things WITHOUT resorting to the supernatural or magic? I can.

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    1. Evolutionists try to explain the existence of biological systems without God in much the same way a child would explain the existence of dinner without mom (a meal prepared without a cook) and by doing so they wield Occam's Razor by the blade.

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    2. As a practicing PhD scientist who publishes in the secular AND the creationist scientist journals, I can assure the readers the latter journals are critically reviewed by PhDs and that most summissions get rejected. My first 7 submissions were rejected (I've never had a secular paper rejected) and I routinely reject erroneous papers I'm asked to review e.g. for CMI. The lead article at the top here is 100% correct and ad hominen cririques are a waste of the reader's time.
      - Dr.RJT

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    3. Does invoking a non observable, non testable, non repeatable, non predictable and non falsifiable mechanism (natural selection) count as MAGIC?

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