[betty boop]

From the elements which possessed them, surely. Where else would they come from?

Where did the elements come from?

[HayekRocks]

I am sorry. Apparently you are under the impression I have an interest in a very old atttempted demonstration, by continued regression, of the existence of a primum mobile. I am almost old enough to have heard it from Aristotle himself, and am well aware both of the argument and of its deficiencies.

Let us not forget the point at issue. The point at issue is that Yockey, I am willing to stipulate correctly, argued that one cannot determine the origin of the genetic code from the code itself. Yockey forgot that the code is inscribed on molecules which have no such limitation, and which, it appears. do preserve some memory of their origins. Information theory is powerful, but let us remember that it is nonetheless a truncation of nature. The genome is not merely a set of instructions. It is also a physical entity.