This is Getting RidiculousNew research on how certain transcription factors work together is causing major problems for the theory of evolution. Transcription factors are proteins that attach to DNA and turn genes on or off. These regulatory proteins have recently been promoted to star status by evolutionists because their expectation that evolution proceeds by creating new proteins has fallen short. Instead of creating new proteins, our modern-day Epicureanism is now supposed to have reprogrammed how existing proteins are used in a mind boggling circuitry of molecular regulators, of which transcription factors play a major role. As one evolutionist explained:
Although the number of protein coding genes has remained fairly constant throughout metazoan evolution, the number of regulatory DNA elements has increased dramatically.
With this move evolutionary theory not only becomes far more complex, it also takes on yet more serendipity. For instance, can you imagine that evolution created all those proteins which just happened to have set the stage for the higher life forms?
Likewise those DNA regions, where transcription factors bind, had to have evolved while the transcription factors themselves had to have evolved. And these separate evolutionary pathways not only had to result in the right kind of binding at the right place in the billion-nucleotide long genome, but said binding had to sometimes produce something useful. Simply put, those DNA regions and the transcription factors have special properties that evolution must have somehow accidentally created. In fact, as one evolutionist explained, evolution must have created these DNA regions “which may allow evolutionary adaptation to novel conditions.” In other words, evolution created special DNA regions so that evolution could then occur.
And the new research makes all of this even more improbable, if that were so possible. The research elucidates how different transcription factors work together. Specifically, not only are DNA regions and transcription factors finely tuned to work together, but transcription factors are finely tuned to work together. In this case, when one transcription factor binds to a second transcription factor, that second transcription factor is then able to bind to DNA. This occurs via a rather dramatic structural change in the second transcription factor—a very difficult and unlikely stunt.
It is a great piece of research on a very interesting system, and the result is yet more absurdity for evolutionary theory. For evolution’s random mutations must have hit upon dozens of different mutations that just happened to result in this coordinated action between the two transcription factors and the right DNA region. It is astronomically unlikely.
Evolutionists once argued that deep time solved all their problems. Now they argue that on top of all those eons of time, there is a near infinity of universes in which evolutionary experiments are constantly on-going. Yes evolution is unlikely, but given all those universes, you’re bound to get lucky sometime.
And how many universes would that be? That’s easy: as many as are required. Infinity raises philosophical problems, but so what. With each new finding, evolutionists can simply ratchet up the universe count to whatever is needed.
Religion drives science, and it matters.