You’re right. I was way to strict in the way I used those terms. I apologize. I clearly need to read more and get a better understanding of biology. Thanks for those references.
The essence of the problem I’ve tried to articulate is simply that when you have high degrees of dependency among sub-systems (proteins), and one changes without commensurate changes in those other sub-systems that depend on it, the larger system-of-systems that depends on all of them will begin to fail. Expecting commensurate changes to all the other sub-systems randomly gives me serious pause. How do you rationalize that? Even if designed, it’s hard. Expecting all the other 999 sub-systems to randomly acquire the needed changes at random and all at the same time as the one that mutated is really hard to accept. but I’m open to hearing how you can believe it.
Thanks again for your patience. I’ll try to do better.
Ray