An inventive mechanism (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, September 02, 2014, 05:02 (3734 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The inventive mechanism (if it exists - I am offering a hypothesis) is what you are calling the computer, which is in the genome, and the genome is the genetic complement of the cell or the cell community. But I don't like the computer image, because computers have to be programmed. -Like it or not, DNA has been used in computing since papers in 2003. The genome uses a computer code. It requires new information for advancements. The genome is really a computer program system. -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing-I see no way your theory can work around this issue. And yes, I do not think the genome is separate from the cells themselves. It is within the cells and it runs the cells. And the whole organism can make some epigentic modifications, but whole species change is beyond that modest capacity, as current research sees it. Epigenetic changes are very modest steps, a la Darwin and his itty-bitty. As I see it, your theory requires itty-bitty, which has never been in the fossil record. Remember, I started as an agnostic. There are reasons why I am a theist, and this is a major one.