Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Job 38:4
"For several decades, evolutionists have been claiming the existence of the nylonase gene as prima facie evidence for evolution. The fact that a bacterium was able to ‘evolve’ the ability to digest a man-made polymer in just a few years was seen as a triumph of evolutionary predictions.
But the early claims that attempted to describe how the gene arose fell short of reality. Instead of a ‘frame shift’ in a gene that caused the new ability to arise, an enzyme that already had the ability to digest similar molecules was fine-tuned by the bacterium to break the nylon bond. But this was done in a copy of the original gene on a plasmid. The original was left untouched.
---Since some bacteria already had the ability to degrade a similar bond (the amide bond found in all proteins),
---and since the enzyme already had a limited ability to degrade nylon, it only took a few minor changes in the backup copy of the enzyme to allow for more efficient nylon degradation.
Thus, the nylonase gene is much better suited to supporting design arguments than to supporting evolution." CMI
"For several decades, evolutionists have been claiming the existence of the nylonase gene as prima facie evidence for evolution. The fact that a bacterium was able to ‘evolve’ the ability to digest a man-made polymer in just a few years was seen as a triumph of evolutionary predictions.
But the early claims that attempted to describe how the gene arose fell short of reality. Instead of a ‘frame shift’ in a gene that caused the new ability to arise, an enzyme that already had the ability to digest similar molecules was fine-tuned by the bacterium to break the nylon bond. But this was done in a copy of the original gene on a plasmid. The original was left untouched.
---Since some bacteria already had the ability to degrade a similar bond (the amide bond found in all proteins),
---and since the enzyme already had a limited ability to degrade nylon, it only took a few minor changes in the backup copy of the enzyme to allow for more efficient nylon degradation.
Thus, the nylonase gene is much better suited to supporting design arguments than to supporting evolution." CMI