[Stultis]

The title and the first paragraph say you are wrong.

"DNA ""could"" modify itself with no outside help, say biologists"

Spirals of DNA, once thought to be merely the passive memory banks that preserve life’s blueprints, ""may"" also actively modify themselves under certain conditions, according to Princeton University scientists.


Are "could and may" definitive words .

How am I wrong? Your quotes confirm exactly what I said: that the statements about design features of the DNA wrt this phenomena -- its role if any in the DNA, whether it is representative of similar phenomena, etc -- are couched (appropriately) in hypotheticals and uncertainties. By contrast the one statement regarding evolution -- that it would eliminate such a phenomena unless it provided some benefit -- is definitive.

[WKB]

are couched (appropriately) in hypotheticals and uncertainties.



I don't like hypotheticals and uncertainties.

They are too hypothetical and uncertain