Genome complexity: what genes do and don't do (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, January 19, 2019, 19:22 (1924 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: I would just like to be sure that I have understood you. Are you now saying that the original DNA could not have contained complete instructions for the whole of evolution, apart from when your God dabbled?

DAVID: I'll stick to my approach that everything needed was there from the beginning, except for minor coursed-direction dabbles. All I will accept that cells do is some editing of DNA and the other somewhat unknown genome layers for minor adaptations and primarily all automatic.

dhw: I’m sorry, but this is all very confusing. Firstly, your latest comment means your God dabbles the minor changes, and yet the cells edit their DNA for minor changes. Which is it? Secondly, you say “everything” - except minor changes – was there from the beginning, but apparently your exact thoughts are 1) that the DNA code cannot possibly serve as instructions to create a fully functioning being, whereas earlier you claimed that “the original DNA may have contained all the info for evolution” which meant “a complete set of instructions for cells to respond to all stimuli…”. And you have agreed 2) that DNA is a "PASSIVE data base which is used by the organism to enable it to make the proteins that it requires.” A passive data base used by the organism is absolutely not a complete set of instructions, so how can “everything needed” have been there from the beginning? At the start of this post I’ve quoted your self-deprecating comment on your own “sloppy thinking and writing”, but I’m afraid this latest post hasn’t made your thoughts any clearer.

I'm sorry if I am confusing you, but you want theoretical exactitudes in an area of research in which we have a partial glimpse into the complexity. DNA is simply a passive code used by the entirety of the various layers of the controls in the genome. I believe many of those layers existed in first life or life would mot have happened. The stupidity is in looking at RNA as having appeared somehow and then life popped up. A code is passive!

Possibilities: 1)That first life contained everything needed then and perhaps for all
of evolution to happen either automatically or as next:
2) God used the initial genome's layers to create each big step/gap in
evolution
3) God only had to step in and make an occasional minor course correction
4) God deleted from the beginning genome and new forms appeared.

Since I believe God ran the process of evolution, it is therefore logical to create the above possibilities, from which I cannot see a defining discovery to tell us which are most possible. I think I have answered your questions.