Metabolic pathway for AMP synthesis is too complex to have evolved

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 References 6 Related claims 7 See Also 8 Acknowledgments

Claim

The metabolic pathway for AMP synthesis is too complex to have evolved. It requires several intermediate steps, and it is highly improbable that all of the steps could have evolved simultaneously.

Source

• Behe, Michael, 1996. Darwin's Black Box, The Free Press, New York, pp. 140-160.

Responses

1. "Too complex" is not an argument. It is a hand-wave. In general, Behe's entire book commits one enormous cherry picking inductive fallacy.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

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References

1. Ferris JP, Yanagawa H, Dudgeon PA, Hagan WJ Jr, Mallare TE, 1984. The investigation of the HCN derivative diiminosuccinonitrile as a prebiotic condensing agent. The formation of phosphate esters. Orig Life Evol Biosph. 15: 29-43.
2. Kuzicheva EA, and Gontareva NB., 2002. Prebiotic synthesis of nucleotides at the Earth orbit in presence of Lunar soil. Adv Space Res. 30(6): 1525-1531.

Related claims

• Irreducible complexity indicates design
• Some systems are irreducibly complex
• Bacterial flagella are irreducibly complex
• Blood clotting is irreducibly complex
• Protein transport within a cell is irreducibly complex
• Immune system is irreducibly complex

See Also

Why is Creationism not a Scientific Theory?

Acknowledgments