Art Hunt, T-URF 13 and Irreducible Complexity

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Art Hunt thinks he found a "Behe buster" in T-URF 13, but has he?

Well if you read Dr Behe's "Edge of Evolution" and "Darwin's Black Box" it is obvious Dr Hunt didn't bust Dr Behe.

First Dr Hunt says the system is irreducibly complex- yet it only has three components- the T-URF 13 protein, the membrane and the foreign molecule that gets transported through the channel. Also it is a destructive system, meaning it is the cause of not so good things. Dr Behe goes over this in "The Edge of Evolution" saying that 1- his work doesn't consider/ pertain to foreign material such as foreign proteins and molecules and 2- Blind processes ca break things much easier then they can can construct useful systems.

So we have this alleged IC system tat doesn't even measure up to Dr Behe's mousetrap- IOW it doesn't applt (IC wise) to anything Dr Behe has claimed about IC. Not only that it is a harmful system, ie not a useful system.

Dr Hunt also claims that this resulting system is a triple CCC, thereby shattering Dr Behe's edge. However on page 148 of "The Edge of Evolution" Dr Behe deals with that bit of misconception- the edge refers to the cell's proteins, not foreign molecules/ toxins. And guess what, Dr Hunt's example contains the binding of a foreign toxin. So the triple becomes a humble double and a destructive one at that, something Dr Behe readily admits blind watchmaker processes can achieve.

So Dr Hunt really smooched the pooch on this one. Unfortunately he will never admit it because he will ignore everything I and others have been telling him.

Now the evotards retreat to "Well it's a new gene, new information, so you are busted anyway"- well it is a destructive gene and it doesn't add anything, meaning it is not an increase in information.