Remember there is an error rate of... (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, March 14, 2015, 00:14 (3332 days ago) @ dhw
edited by dhw, Saturday, March 14, 2015, 18:14


> dhw: I'm afraid the technicalities are way beyond me,-> dhw:Since David believes that evolution did take place, thanks to God preprogramming the first cells in such a way that innovations could happen in existing organisms without destabilisation, perhaps I could call upon him to comment on the scientific details.-Just one very obvious comment about the article. In error correction there must be a mechanism, and we know there is. Therefore, imagine this scenario: initially RNA and DNA form and begin to reproduce more generations. How did RNA/DNA 'know' that errors might occur? Molecules do not plan or think. Obviously, error correction mechanisms had to be simultaneously created or early life would not have reproduced properly and continued to live. We know the correct copy rate is about 99.9%, so errors occurred from the beginning. Further, part of innovation mutations come from uncorrected errors, but since most mutations are deleterious, the control mechanisms were vital. It takes a planning mind to set up both sides of this at once.