How epigenetics works (Introduction)

by dhw, Tuesday, January 08, 2013, 14:16 (4127 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: This whole article seems to me to highlight the intelligence of the genome-DAVID: Beg to differ. The chemical molecules act automatically to the information imbedded in the genome structure. The intelligence that inbedded the information is elsewhere.-There is a continual breakdown in our communication on this subject, as you always focus on the origin of the evolutionary mechanism, whereas my focus lies on how evolution works. In particular, here, my question is whether the mechanism for adaptation is the same as that for innovation, which would dispense with the need for Darwin's random mutations. Unless your god preprogrammed the original "genome structure" to come up specifically with legs, wings, penises, vaginas, eyes, ears, noses, hearts, livers, kidneys, teeth, tongues, brains etc. etc., there has to be an inventive mechanism which takes its own decisions as and when environmental conditions are favourable for the introduction of such organs. Is it not possible, in your own interpretation of events, that God designed such a mechanism to function intelligently but without self-awareness within the genome, much as the first ants and bees were (we assume) intelligent but not self-aware when they created their homes and social structures? Yet again, let me ask you whether you think innovation is likely to have been caused by 1) your God's direct intervention, 2) random mutations, 3) the inventive intelligence of the genome.