How epigenetics works (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, January 09, 2013, 00:08 (4127 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: 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.-Yes I think God designed a genome mechanism to respond in a rather automatic and autonomic fashion to environmental challanges. The cells are not intelligent, but contain information implanted there probably from the beginining of life. The cells do not wilfully make changes on their own. They are programmed to do so. They are no more intelligent than your adding machine, which always gives you intelligent answers, but if you asked it, it cannot tell you how it did the sum.-I hope to finally settle the issue: cells are not intelligent, but are programmed to use information coded into them.