Complexity of gene codes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Friday, August 20, 2010, 14:29 (5018 days ago) @ dhw


> Secondly, if in fact the choice is between chance and a God who occasionally fiddles around, I'm surprised that you would go for chance, especially as you have always insisted that we should not make any assumptions about the UI. Given your belief in his deliberate creation of life, is there any reason why he should not deliberately have intervened if he felt like it? Isn't it just as much an imposition of attributes to argue that he doesn't intervene as to argue that he does?-To answer please review my most recent discussion with Matt. I admit my preference (obviously I don't 'know') for everything being in place from the beginning. However, recent work is showing that the earliest organisms appear to have a very complex adaptation mechanism in the genome. Of course, work is done on current represenatives of ancient bacteria, and presumes they are relatively unchanged. As you have admitted previously, such mechanisms would drive evolution toward more complexity. Secondly, life is run by codes, driven by codes. It can't exist without codes. Why should they not be complete from the beginning? The fact that the genome can manipulate it own genes should not come as a surprise. The manipulation completes an ideal structure to manage life. Living matter is diffrent than the 'brick' or a rock. Living matter has to have the ability to adapt to environmental change, or that great stalker, natural selection takes over.-And finally, I agree that we should not make any assumptions about the UI, but the evidence is pointing more and more to a beginning that was complete, with no subsequent fiddling. Remember, the amoeba has a DNA slightly longer than human DNA, but only six genes. A blank slate waiting to be filled.