By resurrecting a protein that disappeared 450 million years ago, a trio of University of Oregon researchers have shown how evolution could have produced the amazingly complex biological systems that some have claimed are evidence of “intelligent design.”
The research, published today in Science magazine, provides an evolutionary path for the intricate “lock-and-key” relationship between a hormone and its biological receptor. Proponents of intelligent design contend that such relationships are evidence of “irreducible complexity,” meaning they couldn’t have evolved from the random changes that fuel natural selection and therefore must have been designed, whether by God or some other higher power.
UO molecular biologist Joseph Thornton said refuting intelligent design wasn’t the goal of the research, but he’s pleased that it adds to the already robust arguments supporting evolution.
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Intelligent Design is anything but intelligent, I believe.
However, everything I’ve ever read or seen has not been able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that evolution did or did not occur. These are theories, not principles.