[Southack]

You are confused. I’m not referring to a new type of data being stored, or even so much as existing data being stored in a new way (though you seemed to have missed that implication in the article that I linked for you).

Instead, I’m referring to a more rational explanation for the cause of data being stored (e.g. intelligence rather than random chance).

Your computer data didn’t just pop onto a hard drive by accident, yet you willingly suspend your disbelief of Evolution long enough to somehow accept that gigabytes of codons were stored (much less processed via a sophisticated genetic data processing engine) without any form of intelligent intervention.

Moreover, you suspend such disbelief even though Evolutionary Theory to date has concentrated so intensely upn a mere 1.5% of our DNA (i.e. that codes for proteins)...almost ignoring the larger picture in the other 98.5%.

[allmendream]

So in other words you have nothing but some unknown function for the majority of DNA that somehow does something, but you know it isn’t involved in coding for or facilitating protein production?

And for this you say we are abandoning old ideas of DNA data storage? One idea doesn’t even slightly follow from the other. If you are revising your remarks to ‘abandoning ideas of how the data in DNA got there’ then I drop my objection. Otherwise you couldn’t possibly be more incorrect.