Quote Originally Posted by revelarts View Post
Well I believe the paper on the enzymes and evolution in the above is here.
http://www.indiana.edu/~lynchlab/PDF...romiscuity.pdf

here are a few more I papers i found on the role of enzyme evolution by folks that promote evolution.
Enzyme promiscuity: engine of evolutionary innovation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210039

Enzyme recruitment in evolution of new function.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/791073

Enzyme Evolution Explained
http://psb.stanford.edu/psb-online/p...psb00/dean.pdf

But reread the post itself, it's fairly clear on what it means by evolution of enzymes. it's talking about change in function to allow new activity i believe. those responding to the ID people seem to use the term and concept as well.



So i'm not sure what you mean. are you saying that those kind of imagined changes they are asserting are NOT real evolution? that the word for it is wrong? Are you saying since it's so far at the beginning stages that it's not really part of the evolution story?
There's nothing disingenuous going on here so I don't see what you mean.
Those papers seem to confirm my understanding of enzymes and evolution.

Enzymes don't evolve. Populations of organisms do.

The it seems understood that the differentiation and specification discussed is the product of evolutionary processes.

I don't think it is at all controversial to assert that the differences observed are the result of respective differences in the genetic material of the respective organisms.

It seems extremely controversial to assert that alterations in the enzymes themselves could give rise to those changes in later generations, as would be expected if enzymes evolved rather than the populations of organisms that express them. It's alterations in population genetics that result in the expression of altered enzymes in those respective populations.

Considering the well established understanding that alterations in genetic material has been caused naturally without specified direction, it seems far less controversial to assert that the observed differences innthese enzymes, and their observed frequency of expression conform to natural causes, than to assert that those expressions are the result of some specified, but undiscovered and unverifiable design.