Proteins are the machinery of living tissue that builds the structures and carries out the chemical reactions necessary for life.
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The basic structure of proteins is quite simple: they are formed by hooking together in a chain discrete subunits called amino acids.
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The point here is that physics followed the data where it seemed to lead, even though some thought the model gave aid and comfort to religion.
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The question of how the eye works - that is, what happens when a photon of light first impinges on the retina - simply could not be answered at that time.
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Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
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But sequence comparisons simply can't account for the development of complex biochemical systems any more than Darwin's comparison of simple and complex eyes told him how vision worked.
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Throughout history there have been many other examples, similar to that of Haeckel, Huxley and the cell, where a key piece of a particular scientific puzzle was beyond the understanding of the age.
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In the 19th century the anatomy of the eye was known in great detail and the sophisticated mechanisms it employs to deliver an accurate picture of the outside world astounded everyone who was familiar with them.
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Since natural selection requires a function to select, an irreducibly complex biological system, if there is such a thing, would have to arise as an integrated unit for natural selection to have anything to act on.
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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.
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