No you are not free to suggest that Koonin’s denial of ID diminishes his technical observations regarding the coupled translation apparatus, and therefore my use of his observations reflects confusion on my part. That is an attack on my comment to Jon that has no merit.
And as far as Koonin’s paper goes, guess what else he doesn’t involve in the origin of the coupled translation apparatus?
Perhaps you can gather from the title of his paper?
The cosmological model of eternal inflation and the transition from chance to biological evolution in the history of life
Koonin describes the intellectual need for an infinite number of universes, specifically in order to give chance an endless number of opportunities to establish the coupled translation apparatus.
“even in this toy model that assumes a deliberately inflated rate of RNA production, the probability that a coupled translation-replication emerges by chance in a single O-region is P<10-1018.”
And what again was Behe’s definition of irreducible complexity?