Junk DNA: goodbye! (Introduction)

by David Turell , Tuesday, July 29, 2014, 23:09 (3557 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: As I understand it, automatic intelligence entails no autonomous decision-making. It has to be preprogrammed, and you have agreed that adaptations and innovations are not preprogrammed. No deal. (But see “Cell Memories”.)-Cells do not plan, they have responses to choose from.-
>> dhw: I can accept that all forms of intelligence, including our own, may be “within genetically provided guidelines of response”, since all forms of intelligence appear to be limited by physical capacity. That does not make them automatic. (But see “Cell Memories”.)-I repeat, cells do not plan. They are organized to work together within resonse guidences.- 
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> dhw: Atheist Darwinists use junk to prove that DNA was not designed, or at best was badly designed. And so if junk DNA is not junk, a Darwinist evolutionist can perfectly reasonably point out that natural selection has preserved what is useful. It's also worth reminding ourselves that a Darwinist evolutionist does not have to be an atheist.-You keep skipping the point that as function is discovered in DNA, and we are getting to understand more and more of DNA, there is less 'junk'. we have no true idea as of yet what portion of DNA is real junk. We are in the middle of a research process. The apparent end point is that there will be much less junk, and less support for the Darwinist contention that DNA is a helter-skelter result of an aimless process. I don't think that is hard to predict.