Posted: Sep 16, 2013 2:15 pm
Jonathan McLatchie wrote:I dispute the power of selection, mutation, drift, etc, to craft fundamentally new genes and proteins.
Actually, no, you don't dispute it. From your own article:
A further complication with the proposed hypothesis is that some exons are absent from the GULO pseudogene, and it's not entirely clear to me how they could be created by RNA editing. While my original hypothesis is probably incorrect with respect to this particular pseudogene, it remains possible that the human GULO pseudogene yields RNAs that perform some other function in the cell.
BTW, why does that article still contain this blatant inaccuracy, which has been brought to your attention several times:
I had consulted the Ensembl Genome Database regarding the GULO pseudogene in humans, and that database reported that it produces a transcript but no known protein product.
The database does not say GULO produces a transcript. You misunderstood the database, because you did not know how you use it until you were educated about this on your Facebook page, by people whom you subsequently banned and whose posts were deleted.