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You (and God) cannot have the information required for life with just 1 or 2 proteins. Can you document some reason for your belief on this?
It would be like writing the Encyclopedia Britannica with only 2 English letters.
Were you referring to binary codes as in computers? That would be more comparable to using just 4 atoms: C, N. H, O. However, other elements are also required (e.g. phosphorus).
DNA is written using far more complex "letters" btw. So is the information in informational proteins using 20 amino acid letters. Compare God's book in Psalms 139:16 (= DNA written in chemical language which determines the days each body part of the embyro is formed).
So... aside from the above, I'm not seeing any indication of how or why a supernatural chemist would need such seemingly complicated chemistry to supernaturally create life.I
Could you identify why the supernatural designer chemists chose those particular 20 proteins when they designed creation 6,000 years ago?Them main reason I am interested in Amino acid synthesis is its relevance to the origin of life. There are also medical aspects and nutritional aspects of course.
Before going into detail in the required environments that favor each amino acid required for life, I should list the 20 amino acids in proteins - they are:
1. alanine - ala - A
2. arginine - arg - R
3. asparagine - asn - N
4. aspartic acid - asp - D
5. cysteine - cys - C
6. glutamine - gln - Q
7. glutamic acid - glu - E
8. glycine - gly - G
9. histidine - his - H
10. isoleucine - ile - I
11. leucine - leu - L
12. lysine - lys - K
13. methionine - met - M
14. phenylalanine - phe - F
15. proline - pro - P
16. serine - ser - S
17. threonine - thr - T
18. tryptophan - trp - W
19. tyrosine - tyr - Y
20. valine - val - V
I will post a little about each amino acid, including the chemical formulas, in subsequent posts. For this post I will simply mention that Glycine is the simplest amino acid and the easiest to synthesize.
Some references please.
I did not say supernatural did I? Life was created on earth about 3.8 billion years ago. You think I am a young earth creationist? I am one Jehovah's Witnesses.
Change "Why" to "How" and you will be on topic on this thread. We believe God obeyed the laws he created - such as the statutes of the heavens as per Job 38:33 - which do have authority on the earth.
I assume you meant 20 amino acids - not 20 proteins. There are hundreds of proteins required for life, including the exact 3-d fit of enzymes and receptors.
Bottom line - how did/could an intelligent chemist synthesize the 20 Amino acids required for proteins which are required for life? Note that there are specific chemical reactions used by scientists to synthesize these amino acids - some of which prefer wet environment, others dry (even with condensing agents), acid vs. alkaline, hot vs. cold (the needed temperature for specific amino acid synthesis is often narrow & crucial- as is the environment needed). An example is Cytosine synthesis - more on that later - but feel free to post how you think Cytosine was synthesized at the moment of creation of life.
[I say moment because many of the required informational molecules required for life have short life spans - and the information within them is lost very rapidly - see the chemical reaction definition of death of a living cell.]
You ask a good question - how did/could an intelligent (supernatural -ed.) chemist synthesize the 20 Amino acids required for proteins which are required for life?
Why are 20 amino acids required for life when a supernatural designer could seemingly design creation using just 1 or 2.
You (and God) cannot have the information required for life with just 1 or 2 proteins. Can you document some reason for your belief on this?
It would be like writing the Encyclopedia Britannica with only 2 English letters.
Were you referring to binary codes as in computers? That would be more comparable to using just 4 atoms: C, N. H, O. However, other elements are also required (e.g. phosphorus).
DNA is written using far more complex "letters" btw. So is the information in informational proteins using 20 amino acid letters. Compare God's book in Psalms 139:16 (= DNA written in chemical language which determines the days each body part of the embyro is formed).