Michael J. Behe Chapter 3 Summary

Michael J. Behe wrote this book to show that Darwinism is not consistent with what we now know about biochemistry. The book is a daring attempt to re-establish the argument for design in living things.
Chapter three is all about how molecule machines operate a cell. According to the book, these molecules are mostly made up of proteins and proteins carry out chemical reactions. They are very multitalented but they typically have one use or at most a very little. Each cell has thousands and thousands of proteins; there can be from 50 to 1,000 proteins in a single chain. These chains come in various lengths and every link has very different properties. Some may have a positive charge and other have a positive charge. Some are very large and
TPA, which is an essential part of blood clotting, has four types that are part of the flowing system. The chances of getting these four together are 30,000 to the fourth. Behe then gives the example of a lottery ticket. “If 1,000,000 people played each year- it would take 1,000 billion years for anyone to win. 1,000 billion years is 100 times the known age of the universe.” Doolittle’s solution gives huge problems. Irreducibly complex systems are the main struggle. As Doolittle’s system goes, as the system started to build, when there was absolutely nothing to do. Proteins would be joining for no reason. If a protein emerged with no function, evolution would get rid of
Every one is a part by a membrane, and every membrane is divided because these are created of a material that is not found in the other portions of the cell. Manufactured material, which the cells require to function, moves a outstanding distance of 1/10,000 of an inch on its passage from the cytoplasm to the lysosome, still it needs the service of lots of different proteins to ensure its safe appearance. This system is complicated and the system by which it moves from one part to another is also complicated. This particular movement from one part to another is called a gated transport system. “How does this gated system work?” Well, proteins have a sign known by the membrane inside the cell. A protein passage opens and the protein goes through. This system places a major task to Darwinian evolution; without a sign a protein would not be known. If a protein did not know the sign, then there would be no passage. If the gateway let all proteins pass then this section would not be different than any other part of the