"Researchers have found a dimmer switch inside a protein. It tunes 
the
protein’s configuration to take advantage of quantum mechanics during
photosynthesis. Two parallels with human engineering leave no doubts
about the engineered origins of this light collector.
University of Chicago scientists found an elegant sensor connected to the dimmer switch. Two critical chemical parts of the protein together act “as a trigger,” according to University of Chicago news.
Gregory Engel is a chemist at the University of Chicago. His group described when the trigger senses oxygen.
University of Chicago scientists found an elegant sensor connected to the dimmer switch. Two critical chemical parts of the protein together act “as a trigger,” according to University of Chicago news.
Gregory Engel is a chemist at the University of Chicago. His group described when the trigger senses oxygen.
---Too much oxygen
would damage the light-harvesting machines faster than the bacteria
could rebuild them. The trigger acts as a failsafe. High oxygen levels
trip the trigger, which then uses quantum mechanics to redirect light
energy away from the most sensitive energy transfer equipment.
*Today’s triggers don’t happen by chance, they happen on purpose. Could these bacteria come with purpose baked into the protein?
Engel told the university, “Were these results just a consequence of biology being built from molecules, or did they have a purpose? This is the first time we are seeing biology actively exploiting quantum effects.”
*Today’s triggers don’t happen by chance, they happen on purpose. Could these bacteria come with purpose baked into the protein?
Engel told the university, “Were these results just a consequence of biology being built from molecules, or did they have a purpose? This is the first time we are seeing biology actively exploiting quantum effects.”
In so many words, yes, this team found the kinds
of devices—sensors and dimmer switches—that only arise when an engineer
intends a specific purpose. So we are actually seeing God actively
exploit quantum effects in his purposeful construction of photosynthetic
bacteria.
It looks like these bacteria were crafted from the top-down instead of bottom-up.
They parallel the activities of human engineers.
But those same
engineers cannot explain, they can only marvel at the elegance of
operation, miniaturization of scale, and intimate knowledge of
quantum-mechanics that typify the Person who engineered light-harvesting
nanotechnology into these invisible cells.
Q: Who could this Person be?
A: “I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.” Psalm 139:14." ICR