Posted on 12/13/2013 8:59:54 AM PST by aimhigh
Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the instructions contained in DNA and interpret mutations to make sense of health and disease.
UW scientists were stunned to discover that genomes use the genetic code to write two separate languages. One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long.
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control.
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Lingquistic trickery. So if one were to say that dinosaurs are extinct, you would say crocodiles are the same ‘kind’ so the bible covers it. Which is the point of evolution to begin with, common ancestry.
that is completely irrelevant. A massively improbable event continues to be massively improbable for infinity. Infinity is just the amount of time (endless) that it continues to be massively improbable to the point of impossibility. It is just infinitely impossible. Again, you are engaging in "the gambler's fallacy".
God says 'show me'.
Scientist says first you take this dirt..
God interrupts "Get your own dirt!"
That is not the point of evolution at all. Darwinian evolution says that randon mutation by chance can account for the the variety of life. I am saying the variety of life is based on genetic information which has always existed from the beginning. Random mutation has nothing to do with it. While both presuppose "common ancestory" there is all the difference in world between the two.
You can repeat ‘gambler’s fallacy’ a third time and still be incorrect about its application here.
“Virtually everything we have that enriches our standard of living and quality of life were developed by scientists and engineers.”
Amen brother!
“Sad to see so many on this thread hate them.”
Not sure it is actually productive scientists they hate. It seems since or self appointed spokesmen for science are attacking them.
None the less, it used to be science and technology were supported by conservatives and the left rode it down. Still is that case, eg technology causes global warming, pollution, all caused by capitalist corporate greed.
By this latter we hear here, even on this thread with the Monsanto bashing.
Random mutation ‘by chance’ is at the very least a simplistic, incomplete description, definitely deceptively imprecise.
Some people seem to think that the goal of scientific research is to disprove the existance of God. This could not be further from the truth and in fact most scientists throughout history have been deeply religious.
“Some people seem to think that the goal of scientific research is to disprove the existance of God.”
It has been to study God’s creation, among other things.
But in current times, plenty of scientists and popularizers sure think that’s what it is about.
Now it is seen by those advocating for it as a substitute for God.
All these ideas that ostensibly are to support science are harming it.
“But in current times, plenty of scientists and popularizers sure think that’s what it is about.”
Not quite true. Leftists being anti-religious bigots politicize EVERYTHING. A scientist goes about his work and a leftist takes it and makes it into a political issue. The scientist is not the one at fault in that case. Then there are the “scientists” who are political hacks who use their own biases to create results to use as a political weapon. IMO they are not real scientists.
I agree. I used the term popularizer.
But, sometimes they are real scientists. It’s the age we live in.
Careerist hacks are a big problem.
You are now arguing like the gays. Just because we disagree with viewing everything through the prism of evolution doesn't mean we hate them. Get a grip!
Love the scientist, hate the science.
Too much of what people think of as “science” would more accurately be described as “something a scientist said, filter through a liberal journalist”.
I don't wear a pocket protector, either.
“Is it an offense against the All Mighty to keep trying?”
No.
The issue is NOT any continued attempt to understand creation.
And our ignorance is not an “offense” against G-d, and, quite actually neither is the arrogance of our ego’s which G-d knows to expect.
The “offense” is that human arrogance, in science, leads to the establishment of orthodoxies, which become grist for the political mill that strengthens them and tries to marginalize the sceptic, when it is the questioning of the sceptic - I think what we believe we know is either not correct or not all there is to know, on a subject - that is the origin of all scientific inquiry.
The “offense” of the arrogance of scientific orthodoxy is that it is an offense against the humility we need, the humility that sees we will always be ignorant of final answers to the deepest questions, and what answers we have at any time are but stepping stones in a never ending pursuit of the unreachable end.
The best scientists are always willing to admit that what we know is only what we know today.
I didn't realize my wife had a sister.
“I didn’t realize my wife had a sister.”
Your wife is smart and tells the truth. :o)
Origins of life ping....
Thanks for posting, aimhigh.
Big fan of Torah wherein modern science comes about gradually.
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