The crystal structure of Ttx1576 reveals a unique fold and a mechanism for ssDNA binding, consisting of an extended cleft lined with hydrophobic phenylalanine residues and flanked by basic amino acids. Two ssDNA-binding domains are linked by a coiled-coil leucine zipper.
The evolutionary tree failed yet again so evolutionists just invented another just-so story. That ubiquitous and fundamental protein was “displaced”:
ThermoDBP appears to have displaced the canonical SSB during the diversification of the Thermoproteales, a highly unusual example of the loss of a “ubiquitous” protein during evolution.
I guess anything can happen “during evolution.” As one of the evolutionists explained:
All cells, whether they are microbial or human, have some things in common. These are the fundamental components or building blocks which were present in the first cells and have been passed on over 3.5 billion years. However, we have discovered that a gene normally thought to be absolutely essential and conserved throughout every form of life, is in fact lost in one group of volcanic bugs, and replaced by a completely novel gene we have christened ThermoDBP.
As one writer explained, “The discovery has ramifications for understanding about how life has evolved on earth.” That would be an understatement. What the new discovery and associated just-so story reveal, yet again, is that pretty much anything goes “during evolution.” This is not a theory, it is a tautology. It doesn’t explain nature, it is explained by nature. Whatever evolutionists find, it must have evolved. Of course there is no scientific explanation for how novel proteins could arise. In fact even the best just-so story is a ridiculous 27 orders of magnitude short of reality. Evolutionists have no idea how it could have happened, but they are absolutely sure that it did happen: “Evolution is a fact, don’t confuse me with the facts.”