Genome complexity: we survive constant mutations (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, May 12, 2018, 14:44 (2176 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID’s comment: the mutations are there but so are the safety nets. Logically when DNA appeared the safety nets had to be there also, or life would not have continued. Only a designed system fits the facts. One can argue that a perfect designer would have made a perfect system that never mutated, but the way evolution advances is by having groups of cooperative genes creating new forms, which again would require a designer, and makes chance extremely unlikely.

dhw: Thank you for yet another amazing article on how cells work. And thank you also for your illuminating comment. If God exists, I would agree with you that he created a system whereby groups of cooperative cells (cell communities) created new forms, thus producing the whole higgledy-piggledy history of evolution. And I would also agree with you that he did not WANT a system that never mutated, because he WANTED the vast variety of forms that his invention has produced. It seems that our ideas about God and evolution are converging.

Thank you. We have never been far apart. My only point has been that if God bothered to create life He would have carefully monitored its progression, and I've agreed He might have given organisms an IM with guidelines or He dabbled