03 Dec '11 20:23>
It should also be noted that a lot of Meyers Signature in the Cell is now incorrect, the science has moved on.
As evolutionary biologist and Christian Darrel Falk explains in his review of Meyers book -
http://biologos.org/blog/signature-in-the-cell/
As evolutionary biologist and Christian Darrel Falk explains in his review of Meyers book -
At the time of writing Signature of the Cell, Dr. Meyer correctly concluded that no RNA molecule had ever been evolved in a test tube which could do more than join two building blocks together. However, while the book was in press, Gerald Joyce and Tracey Lincoln published an article in Science in which they demonstrated that evolved-RNA can take on a second function, the all-important replication activity. In just 30 hours their collection of RNA molecules had grown 100 million times bigger through a replication process carried out exclusively by evolved RNA molecules. So another dead-end pronouncement by Meyer was breached even while the book was in press.
http://biologos.org/blog/signature-in-the-cell/