More on the splicing code (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 14:51 (4109 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: According to one of the Cohens' in-laws, God IS "first cause energy". So what is the formula for do-it-yourself intelligence, please?-From Paul Davies:-"Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity. Even the simplest bacterium is incomparably more complicated than any chemical brew ever studied.
 
 
 
But a more fundamental obstacle stands in the way of attempts to cook up life in the chemistry lab. The language of chemistry simply does not mesh with that of biology. Chemistry is about substances and how they react, whereas biology appeals to concepts such as information and organisation. Informational narratives permeate biology. DNA is described as a genetic "database", containing "instructions" on how to build an organism. The genetic "code" has to be "transcribed" and "translated" before it can act. And so on. If we cast the problem of life's origin in computer jargon, attempts at chemical synthesis focus exclusively on the hardware ... the chemical substrate of life ... but ignore the software ... the informational aspect. To explain how life began we need to understand how its unique management of information came about."-None of know how the information was put into biological life, but it is there and facts speak louder than words. God did it. God is first cause energy. 
I wish we could ask him, but that takes faith.