Complexity of gene codes (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, August 28, 2010, 15:20 (5010 days ago) @ xeno6696


> like Darwin's six species of finches, with beaks adjusting cyclically with climate changes in cycles.-The finches are not changed!! They are like Roger's arm below, adapting to 90 mile an hour pitches. Roger's son can make the same adaptation BUT they are both really the same species.
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> Okay... I think, coupled with your post in "Ain't Nature Wonderful" I think I FINALLY understand you;
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> 1. Adaptability is a necessary component to life, as much as reproduction and respiration. 
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> 2. Adaptability itself isn't something you view as "creatable by chance."
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> These two underpinnings seem to be the hinge. 
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> Assuming I have this right, I need to get some clarifications. 
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> First; how does your epigenetics differ from stimulus/response? -I guess in the meaning of word descriptions. "Stimulus/response" is descriptive, and doesn't clarify genetic levels of change, Like Aristotle I'm getting to underlying cause and mechanism. Epigenetics changes the core genetics of the organism as a whole. It is back to Reznick's guppies. The entire organisms get bigger in size and this size remains the same from generation to generation unless put back into a different river with preditors who like large guppies on their menu. Roger's grandson will not have a large arm unless he starts to pitch. And his kids won't have enlarged arms unless they pitch. Each generation of Clemens is not irreversibly changed, like the finches.