Genome complexity: copying at work (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, July 04, 2013, 13:04 (4161 days ago) @ David Turell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gdBJt6sdDfI
 
 
DAVID: Darwin would discard his theories if he could see this.-More fascinating stuff, for which many thanks. But which theories would Darwin discard? Common descent? Natural selection? The "intelligent genome" so vividly illustrated here might well have made him change his views on how evolution works, especially in the domain of innovation, but he himself anticipated that: "A grand and almost untrodden field of inquiry will be opened, on the causes and laws of variation, on correlation of growth, on the effects of use and disuse, on the direct action of external conditions, and so forth." (Recapitulation and Conclusion) Does the modern study of genetics tell us that evolution didn't happen?