[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers, betty boop!

A metaphor for what your correspondents are saying is that Einstein's theory of relavity was not complex because it was written on paper with ink.

The proteins and genes are complex - not because of the bio/chemistry - but because of (a) the semiosis - the language itself and the encoding/decoding of it (b) the autonomy of the information/semiosis by organism and species, (c) the functions integrated within the whole organism towards the singular purpose, the will to live and (d) the permeation of both the information and the will to live in the biosphere and/or universe!

[betty boop]

The proteins and genes are complex - not because of the bio/chemistry - but because of (a) the semiosis - the language itself and the encoding/decoding of it (b) the autonomy of the information/semiosis by organism and species, (c) the functions integrated within the whole organism towards the singular purpose, the will to live and (d) the permeation of both the information and the will to live in the biosphere and/or universe!

And that is to put the entire problem in a nutshell! Most elegantly done! Kudos, dear Alamo-Girl!

[VadeRetro]

Not to take you off-topic, but thanks for that PDF file article "Fossils, molecules and embryos: new perspectives on the Cambrian explosion." Took me a long time to get to the copy I saved on my HD, so I don't have the post where you recommended it. I didn't find it to be particularly ID-ist in its conclusions. (I'm no longer sure if you so indicated to me or not.) Part of the paper's bottom line was: "We have every reason to believe that the pace of evolution as suggested by plausible interpretations of the fossil record could easily be achieved."

Anyway, it's an interesting paper and I'm still digesting it. (Am I a slow reader or what?) Thanks for it.

[b_sharp]

Alamo-Girl, did you forget to mention the energy crystals and copper bracelets?