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University pro - SICKLE CELL ANEMIA
fes sor of chem is -
The sole ex am ple of a "use ful mu -
try and DNA ex -
ta tion" that ev o lu tion ist bi ol o gists
pert, cal cu lat ed
re fer to is the dis ease sic kle cell ane -
the prob a bil i ty of
mia, in which the he mo glo bin mol e -
the 2,000 types of
cule re spon si ble for trans port ing ox -
pro teins in a sim -
y gen be comes de formed and chan -
Robert Shapiro
ple bac te ri um
ges shape. As a re sult, its abil i ty to
com ing in to ex is tence by chance.
trans port ox y gen is se ri ous ly im -
(The hu man cell con tains around
paired.
200,000 dif fer ent types of pro teins. .)
Victims of sic kle cell ane mia suf -
The fig ure ob tained is a prob a bil i ty
fer in creas ing re spir a to ry dif fi cul -
. (This is the as tro nom -
of 1 in 10 40,000 223
ties. Yet this ex am ple of mu ta tion,
i cal fig ure of 1 fol lowed by 40,000 ze -
dis cussed un der blood dis eas es in
roes.)
med i cal text books, is re gard ed as ad -
A bac te ri um's com plex i ty re futes
van ta geous by some ev o lu tion ist bi -
chance and clear ly points to the ex is -
ol o gists.
tence of a Creator. But this ev i dent
Sufferers from this dis ease en joy
truth is still de nied be cause of blind
a par tial im mu ni ty to ma lar ia, and
de vo tion to the ma te ri al ist world
this is de scribed as an ev o lu tion a ry
view. Robert Shapiro, a re search er
ad ap ta tion. Using that kind of in con -
in to the or i gin of life, re veals this ir -
sist ent log ic, one could say that the
ra tion al ma te ri al ist stance in these
ge net i cal ly lame were spared be ing
words:
killed in traf fic ac ci dents since they
Similarly, the ex is tence of bac te ria and could not walk, and that lame ness is
oth er liv ing be ings, all of which are
a use ful ge net ic trait..
much more com plex than a watch, im -
It is clear that mu ta tions have on -
plies the ex is tence of a cre a tor, as on ly
ly de struc tive ef fects. Pierre Paul
a high er be ing could de sign crea tures
Grassé, former pres i dent of the
so fit for their func tion. We will not
French Academy of Sciences, com -
take this es cape route in our book, for
pares mu ta tions to spell ing mis takes
we are com mit ted to seek ing an an swer
dur ing the cop y ing of a writ ten text.
with in the realm of sci ence . . . We
must look for an oth er so lu tion if we Like spell ing mis takes, mu ta tions
wish to re main with in sci ence. 224 add no fur ther in for ma tion, but rath -
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