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Answering the ID challenge

Posted by S_F_Pitman on 15 Mar 2009 at 12:10 GMT

hence, spliceosomal machinery with considerably fewer components than today's spliceosome was already functional.
http://ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000315#article1.front1.article-meta1.abstract1.p1

A valuable notation, given our "intelligent design" collegues' penchant for cherry-picking biochemical machinery as evidence for their position.

However silly their position seems, it is good to see that their valid challenges (that there are certain structures "too complex" for evolution to have produced) have not gone ignored.