From: rokimoto557@gmail.com   
      
   On 12/15/2025 6:31 AM, MarkE wrote:   
   > Q6. “Minimum viable MET”: what is the smallest set of components that   
   > can yield directionally sensitive, tethered mechanotransduction (even if   
   > low fidelity)?   
   >   
   > A. https://chatgpt.com/s/t_693fff94b4e881919740963d356fec8a   
   >   
   > A “minimum viable” directionally sensitive, tethered MET system (even   
   > low fidelity) requires three functional modules:   
   >   
   > a force-bearing extracellular tether with defined polarity,   
   >   
   > a mechanically gated cation pore at one end of that tether, and   
   >   
   > a coupler/scaffold that converts tether tension into channel gating (and   
   > keeps the complex in the right place).   
   >   
   > ...   
   >   
      
   IC failed and amounted to nothing for the ID creationist scam.  This   
   system requires 3 functions, but each function could exist and preform a   
   function without the others.  Together they produce a function that   
   requires all three functions. It is one of the reasons that IC failed to   
   be something that could not evolve.  You need something more like Behe's   
   "well matched" or you need more parts.  Behe failed to define well   
   matched so that it could be measured and his systems could be determined   
   to have enough of it to matter, and he never could determine the maximum   
   number of parts that would be impossible because he could never rule out   
   multiple part subfunctions getting together.   
      
   Ron Okimoto   
      
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