Irreducible complexity in biology
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Irreducible Complexity is a characteristic of systems "wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to effectively cease functioning."[1] This IC List is a collection of components and systems that have been proposed as irreducibly complex and who they were originally proposed by.
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Micro Components
- Michael Behe proposes Molecular Machines as Experimental Support for the Design Inference[2]
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[edit] Bacterial flagellum Proposed: Michael Behe[3] |
[edit] Protein folding Proposed: Jerry Bergman[4] |
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[edit] Cilia Molecular Cell Biology
Proposed: Michael Behe[5] |
[edit] ATP synthase![ATP synthase --- [ source url] & source page](/wiki/Image:ATP_synthase.jpg) Proposed: Jerry Bergman in ATP: The Perfect Energy Currency for the Cell[7] |
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[edit] DNA - ribosome system Transcription regulation Proposed by: Michael Behe[8] The IDEA Center elaborates: The DNA - Enzyme System is Irreducibly Complex |
[edit] Protein transport Proposed by: Michael Behe[9] |
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[edit] DNA supercoils Proposed by: Michael Behe[10] |
[edit] Electron transport Proposed by: Michael Behe[11] |
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[edit] Telomeres Proposed by: Michael Behe[12] |
[edit] Photosynthesis Proposed by: Michael Behe[13] |
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[edit] Blood Clotting Proposed: Michael Behe[14] |
Candidates
Structures and systems that are being evaluated to determine if they are irreducibly complex.
Macro Systems
Simplest self reproducing cell
The simplest self reproducing cell is considered irreducibly complex and not amenable to abiogenesis.
- Minimal genome should be twice the size, study shows, Nature (30 March 2006)
Meso Systems
Eye
- The Specified Complexity of Retinal Imagery David E. Stoltzmann, CRC Quarterly Vol. 43 #1, June 2006
- Part IV: Vision Part 1–Parts of the Eye Howard Glicksman
- Part V: Vision Part 2 –The Retina Howard Glicksman
- Part VI: Vision Part 3 – What Does the Brain See? Howard Glicksman
Complex Body Systems
Howard Glicksman, MD (Dr. G) in Exercise your Wonder reviews numerous systems of complex body parts.[15] He challenges proponents of evolution to show how these could be developed by small incremental changes when lack or poorly functioning components cause death.
Carnivorous Plants
Carnivorous Plants Wolf-Ekkehard Lo¨nnig and Heinz-Albert Becker, (Max-Planck-Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Cologne, Germany) cite:
Utricularia ‘is a complex bit of mechanism and offers, as yet, an intractable problem in evolution’Juniper BE, Robins RJ and JoelDM(1989) Carnivorous Plants. London: Academic Press, p 117
‘the evolution of leaves with trap systems from noncarnivorous ones is mysterious, and there are no widely accepted hypotheses’Rivadavia F, Kondo K, KatoMand HasebeM(2003) Phylogeny of the sundews, Drosera (Droseraceae), based on chloroplast rbcL and nuclear 18S ribosomal DNA sequences. American Journal of Botany 90: 123–130. Lo¨nnig and Becker further observe that:
Some biologists believe that the trap mechanism(s) of Utricularia and several other carnivorous plant genera (Dionaea, Aldovanda, Genlisea) come at least very near to ‘such a case’ of irreducible complexity.
Contingency Designs
Redundancy
Robustness
- The Ultimate Evidence of the Design of Life, Peter Borger
- Minimal genome should be twice the size, study shows Nature (30 March 2006)
Regeneration
Heart Regeneration
- Human heart regeneration Paul Riley et al. Nature Nov. 15, 2006
- Zebra Heart Regeneration
Tail Regeneration
See tail regeneration in the salamander, lizard, newt etc.
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[edit] Axoneme Haixan Sui & Kenneth H. Downing provide detailed structure of the axoneme microtubule doublets.[16], [17] Proposed: (need cite) |
[edit] Tubulin Mystery of Vital Cell Protein Solved After 30 Years
Proposed: (need cite) |
Error Correction
The Elimination of Mutations by the Cell’s Elaborate Protein Quality Control Factory: A Major Problem for Neo-Darwinism Creation Research Quarterly Vol. 43, (2006-2007) #2
Systems having distinct IC cores
Eukaryotic RNA PolII
Weaver RF (2005) Molecular Biology (3rd ed.), p. 278.
References and notes
- ↑ Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Michael J. Behe, 1996, ISBN 0684834936.
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, C.S. Lewis Society, Cambridge University, Summer 1994 meeting. See also Michael J. Behe, Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ responded to critics & Michael Behe, A response to critics of Darwin's Black Box, ISCID
- ↑ http://www.creationresearch.org/creation_matters/pdf/2001/cm0606.pdf
- ↑ Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Michael J. Behe, 1996, ISBN 0684834936.
- ↑ Cornelius Hunter, ATP Synthase: Paley's Secret Spring, IDtheFuture Sept. 12, 2006
- ↑ ATP: The Perfect Energy Currency for the Cell Jerry Bergman, ATP: The Perfect Energy Currency for the Cell, Creation Research Society Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1999)
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Molecular Machines: Experimental Support for the Design Inference, Cosmic Pursuit, March 1, 1998
- ↑ Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution, Michael J. Behe, 1996, ISBN 0684834936.
- ↑ Howard Glicksman, Exercise Your Wonder, ARN.org
- ↑ Haixan Sui & Kenneth H. Downing, Secrets of a Cellular Machine: New Clues to the Architecture of Flagella and Cilia] Julyl 26, 2006 Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
- ↑ Haixan Sui & Kenneth H. Downing, Molecular architecture of axonemal microtubule doublets revealed by cryo-electron tomography] Nature Letters 2006 doi:10.1038/nature04816
