Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Chemical postevolution

Dear Hrafn,

Thank you for the vivid discussion. Please let me comment: the term chemical postevolution is not a neologism. It is an important an novel scientific term in special but widespread technical setting: "How to chemically optimize natural metabolites in order to get good drugs". Like "car driving" and "car racing" would not be discussed in the same article (though car racing is a special form of car driving) also chemical postevolution should not be discussed in the article chemical evolution. Best regards, Paxillus —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paxillus (talk • contribs) 12:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)

The (true) fact, that this term is not found in google books only shows that today wikipedia is much faster than scientific monographics (unfortunately a dying species anyways). As you can see only very new REVIEW articles are cited (no original publications). I think it is a big advantage of wikipedia to spread encyclopedic knowledge faster than any other print medium, we should not hamper this advantage with google books searches as a premise for wikipedia articles.

Please allow me another comment: Science has to do a lot with bringing order into complex facts. Often a special point of view dictates how you order things. Though this (often subjective) point of view might look arbitrary (and more based on intuition rather than on hard facts) it might lead to a new way to interprete things, giving us new methodology and new insight, that under very objective criteria will lead to scientific progress. Darwin or Lamarck might be examples for this typical situation in science.

Again coming back to chemical postevolution, it is a special way to look upon chemical drug optimization. When seeing how nature has optimized its natural products (secondary metabolites like taxol [a mulitbillion dollar cancer drug] or daptomycin [a hundred million antiinfective drug] one can also understand where are the limits of natural structural optimization. When seeing these limitations, white spots in natures space become obvious, these are the most promising areas for chemists in drug discovery to go into.

For these reasons I would like to renominate the article.

Again best regards, Paxillus (Paxillus (talk) 13:21, 25 January 2009 (UTC))