More on the splicing code (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, January 25, 2013, 17:22 (4113 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: The informational exons can be spliced in many ways to create different proteins from the same gene. The authors discuss another level of complexity in the genome, a splicing code in junk DNA:-http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/%E2%80%98junk%E2%80%99-dna-hides-assembly-in...-Another view of how alternate splicing with the same gene makes two different species, and might show how speciation happens. But where is the intelligent decision-making source hidden in the setup. That is not yet clear, or is it foredained somehow in the original DNA code?-Wonderful stuff! Could it be that our scientists are gradually beginning to find evidence supporting the theory discussed so presciently and so learnedly and in such detail on this forum under the heading "The Intelligent Cell", later rechristened "The Intelligent Genome"? (Did I hear someone whisper: "Nobel"? Or was it "No, bull"?) Just to remind the breathless world: this theory 1) removes Darwinian dependence on random mutations as the mechanism for innovation; 2) explains the higgledy-piggledy bush of evolution; 3) explains the gaps in the fossil record; 4) thus establishes punctuated equilibrium as a replacement for gradualism; 5) offers a plausible explanation for the Cambrian Explosion; 6) should be acceptable to theists and atheists alike, apart from those theists who believe in separate creation, since it leaves open the question of how the "decision-making source" came into existence.-Would common descent (= all forms of life are descended from earlier forms) have been possible without such a mechanism?