Spaghetti code?
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Very fascinating article - thanks for posting it. It’s interesting to hear that life is more complex that the basic genetic model. I have seen a few other articles posted here relating to this dawning realization.
Our living world clearly is based on an information code which is more complex than anything man and/or his computer science has ever yet devised. Anybody who thinks this kind of stuff can evolveis living in lala-land.
No matter what the end result may be, it is very hard to conceive of 98+% of the genome being “junk”. Life, nature, creation, whatever one may call it....it is too sophisticated and too complex to simply allow garbage to lie around, cluttering up the place. Of many things that are self evident, that is one that even a child should comprehend.
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"What regulates the regulators?" is the 64-million-dollar question.... I've seen some fascinating speculations about this involving the quantum domain and spontaneous emissions of photons by the yet-deeper universal vacuum field, photons being information carriers that trigger the timing and place reactions essential for biological life occur. The next ten years will probably be a very fertile time for the biological sciences, provided adherents of the currently-reigning orthodoxies don't succeed in strangling such efforts in their cradle.... (It's beginning to seem to me that is the role and function of the peer-reviewed journals these days.)
Thanks so much for this fascinating post, GodGunsGuts!
This makes perfect sense really. Think about a computer program. If you only took the display routines or IO routines from the code and considered the rest of it “junk”, then most of a computer program would be considered “junk”. Protein regulation is another way of talking about a cell knowing what to put where and when. The junk-DNA becomes the most important part of the genome because it is the true blueprint. The genes are just the code for the final output.
>>The “central dogma” of genetics, since Watson and Crick determined the structure of DNA, is that genetic information flows one-way<<
This has been suspected since it was determined that insanity can be inherited from one’s children.
Right, was this part of what you had in mind during your comment to me about the DNA in the thread yesterday?
Also, thanks for the tip about compound interest: but I am doing a little judicious stock picking as well to help things along. Thanks for the encouragement.
Cheers!
Is this the discovery that’s going to drive the last nail into the Theory of Evolution’s coffin yet again?
“including the “modern orthodoxy” that only genes are important:”
Orthodoxy? In Science? Nooo, that never happens!
The author is incorrect in his use of the word "causing."
The article in question from ‘creationsafari’that announces “Genetics “Central Dogma” Dead” concedes that...
“It remains indisputable that DNA codes for proteins via messenger RNA, and that proteins perform the major structural and functional operations of the cell.”
The finding of massive amounts of regulatory RNA (the only actual scientific meat among the rhetorical straw men) raised this speculation by Patrick Barry author of ‘Genome 2.0’ as quoted by the article in creationsafari...
“In the established definition, a gene is a discrete region of DNA that produces a single, identifiable protein in a cell. But the functioning of a protein often depends on a host of RNAs that control its activity. If a stretch of DNA known to be a protein-coding gene also produces regulatory RNAs essential for several other genes, is it somehow a part of all those other genes as well?”
Hardly an overturning of the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology. It is a very interesting finding and it is estimated that these regulatory elements that show evolutionary conservation between lineages like genes (indicating that they have function and are under selective constraint) make up as much of the human genome as the genes themselves (3%).