Biomimetics and False Evolution Claims

We have seen many times where something is called "evolution" that is nothing of the kind. Mayhaps some people reckon that they have to do this to make science more sciency, but it is a mite frustrating when seeing good science contaminated with Darwinism. This happened again involving enzymes, catalysts, and biomimetics.

Credit: US National Library of Medicine
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Biomimetics (or biomimicry) is using what is found in nature for human applications. Catalysts cause a reaction to occur and make it happen very quickly, often at a surprising rate. They are necessary in industrial applications, but are very expensive and difficult because they rely on precious metals. If they used more common earth-abundant metals, costs would be much lower. How about researching catalysts in enzymes?

Researchers had good science, but called it by the self-contradictory term "directed evolution". No, they used intelligence and selected the materials necessary, mutating specific genes, and more. They drew from the Master Engineer's design and lit prayer candles to Papa Darwin. There was no evolution, only modifying what God had already provided.

Enzymes are a vital class of proteins that are catalysts. That is, they speed up chemical reactions without being consumed in the process. Without enzymes, many reactions essential for life would be far too slow for life to exist.

For example, a reaction “absolutely essential” in creating the building blocks of DNA and RNA would take 78 million years in water. But an enzyme (orotidine 5'-monophosphate decarboxylase) makes this reaction go 10¹⁸ times faster, so it takes less than 3 milliseconds in the cell. . . . 

There are also many essential enzymes for DNA repair, without which DNA would disintegrate rapidly. And the DNA would be useless unless its information could be decoded. . . .

This requires exquisite fine tuning of the amino acids so that the enzymes have the required shape. Indeed, the fine-tuning is at the atomic level, so the right atoms of the enzymes interact with the right atoms of the substrate..

To read the full article and see how this related to science, industry, creation, and false claims of evolution, click on "Copying enzyme design to make industrial catalysts — What does ‘directed evolution’ really mean?"