Scientists Say They’ve Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA

NY Times ^ | July 25, 2006 | NICHOLAS WADE

[Graymatter]

It didn't take an infinite amount of time. In fact, it got started fairly quickly. Within several tens of millions of years after the earth cooled enough to allow the countdown to begin.

Unless of course it didn't start here. Even for a billion or so years, what we have seems awfully complex. I mean if you think it all happened naturally while God was busy on some more interesting project. :)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

In the genetic code, sets of three DNA units specify various kinds of amino acid, the units of proteins. A curious feature of the code is that it is redundant, meaning that a given amino acid can be defined by any of several different triplets.
Biologists have long speculated that the redundancy may have been designed so as to coexist with some other kind of code, and this, Dr. Segal said, could be the nucleosome code.

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So they believe that there was a designer....?]

[Montaignes Cat]

Succinctly put !

[PatrickHenry]

This miracle stuff makes my brain go slack and my pants wet. Placemarker

[Pharmboy]

Good pick-up. Even scientists speak of it in those terms. It's so logical.

[muawiyah]

It's that universal access port in the groin isn't it?

Still trying to figure out how "evolution" managed to come up with the idea we needed "butt plugs".

[muawiyah]

Kum bah yah!

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The Da Vinci Code?

[js1138]

It's a miracle some folks remember to breathe.

[auto power]

so, now it's possible for all liberals to become conservatives....great!

[Doctor Stochastic]

Fifty nifty replies; not one addresses the topic of the post. Not bad. Of course, posting on a scientific topic dilutes the quality of the comments, this one included.

[VOA]

The discovery, if confirmed, could open new insights into
the higher order control of the genes,
like the critical but still mysterious process by which each type
of human cell is allowed to activate the genes it needs but cannot
access the genes used by other types of cell.

Break open the champagne...
For the unveiling of another triumph of an endless string of random processes.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Since the advent of "cloning" and its surprisingly high failure rate, scientists have believed there must be at least one (possibly more) other sets of information that they knew nothing about that controlled what the DNA does. This may be one of them.

The relatively high failure of cloning, incidentally, points out that there is a tremendous gap between figuring out what IS and has been for eons and being able to replicate it or manipulate it, even haphazardly.

[VOA]

This is what Israelis spend their time on when they're not doing the world's
dirty work by eliminating fascist lunatics.

Just as Al-Quida was jealously impelled to destroy buildings they
could never hope to build...
Hizbollah is driven by envy to destroy a country that would find cures
to diseases that afflict even their own constituents.

But then, it's all the will of Allah.

[reagan_fanatic]

Praise Evolution from whom all blessings flow.
Praise Evolution all creatures here below.
Evolution is so cool. It can do anything.
Praise you, Evolution.

ROTFL! I'd put that on my tagline if it were a bit shorter!

[furball4paws]

It's the DaVinci Code.

[js1138]

Fifty nifty replies; not one addresses the topic of the post. Not bad. Of course, posting on a scientific topic dilutes the quality of the comments, this one included.

Whistling past the graveyard of creationism. It's actually a good sign.

[far sider]

Are you attempting to make some sort of argument?

No (unless sarcasm is some sort of argument). I'm just praising our creator. Evolution. If Evolution can evolve such an amazing invention as DNA, then it truly is worthy of our praise. May Evolution bless you, Dimensio. Amen.

[hosepipe]

[ (That's one of the differences between science and non-science. Science isn't limited by how things seem.) ]

Not true Sam...
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense - Tom Clancy

[js1138]

That would exclude most of Genesis, so I guess it must be reality.

An odd premise, however.