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posted 19. September 2006 16:23
Genetic Redundancy: The Ultimate Evidence of the Design of Life
by Peter Borger
Abstract: The fundamental premise of the intelligent design concept is that biological systems are the result of intelligent design. Question is however, how the design of such systems can be unequivocally recognized. It has been argued that the irreducible complexity of biological systems can only be explained invoking intelligence and as such it is often presented as evidence of intelligent design. The Darwinians interpretation of irreducible complex systems and their apparent design is that they are the ultimate accumulated result of the natural selection of slightly advantageous traits. Straightforward unambiguous evidence for the design of biological systems should come from observed biological systems that cannot be the result of natural selection. If we would find a biological system to exist for which we must assume neutral selection, then we would not only have the evidence for intelligent design, but the system would also qualify as a falsifier of Darwinian Theory. Over the past two decades scientists have observed the peculiar biological phenomenon of genetic redundancy, which pertains to genes or genetic systems that seem to have no obvious function. Indeed, genetic redundancy is now defined as the situation in which the disruption of a gene is selective neutral. Genetic redundancy is the resultant of cooperating scale free genetic networks that provide robustness to organisms. One of the biggest surprises of modern biology genetic redundancy terminates Darwin’s era of natural selection.
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