Are the going to have to change the name of the movie Gattaca?
> He wondered why these improvements haven’t occurred in living creatures.
Perhaps it has and the creatures died.
What could possibly go wrong when the Jihadis can make new proteins?
I always find it amusing how impossible it is for evolutionists, when talking about the way things work in nature, to avoid using the language of creation and design.
Scientists don't really help to advance the cause when they make unscientific statements like this in the lay press.
We currently have no reason to believe a two-biopolymer system is even viable, let alone that is is superior, and no reason whatsoever to think it's more statistically likely.
You did something cool and challenging, which may help us to better understand biochemistry and microbiology. Let it go at that, without such wild speculation.
This is a VERY interesting article. My best guess is that our present system is at the “sweet spot” - between information density, ease of replication, and error detection and correction. It is entirely possible that alternative systems existed before, during, or even AFTER life based on the present system began on Earth, but died out quickly especially in geological terms, which is why we have never found any evidence of them.
I believe that Larry Niven described a creature (Bandersnatchi) in his science fiction stories with artificial DNA that was so large that the creature could not mutate/”evolve” due to random events (and become dangerous to it’s creator) and this also left it basically impervious to radiation/cancer.