To: Heartlander
DNA has the following:
1. Functional Information
2. Encoder
3. Error Correction
4. Decoder
Functional only in the sense that DNA is translated to RNA that is translated to amino acid peptides that are folded, not always spontaneously, into proteins that, after various degrees of processing, are functional.
However, DNA does not have encoders, decoders, or error correction. These functions are provided by cellular machinery in the form of proteins. It is true that the information for the first order structure of the protein subunits is encoded in DNA, but the overall information, so to speak, that determines the higher order and resulting function of the assembled machines as well as their function in the overall economy of the cell has not, to this point, been found to be encoded in DNA.
111 posted on
09/27/2013 7:09:50 PM PDT by
aruanan
To: aruanan
112 posted on
09/27/2013 7:18:07 PM PDT by
Heartlander
(We are all Rodeo Clowns now!)
To: aruanan
How could such a system form randomly, without any intelligence, and totally unguided?
What would come first - the encoder, error correction, or the decoder? How and where did the functional information originate? IOW did the hardware create the software - or did the software create the self-replicating hardware? - (no longer rhetorical questions)
113 posted on
09/27/2013 7:26:50 PM PDT by
Heartlander
(We are all Rodeo Clowns now!)
To: aruanan; Alamo-Girl; betty boop; spirited irish; marron; YHAOS; jodyel
The entire chain of DNA is an encoded message, information for processing. God created the information and His created lifeless universe then receives the message and decodes it into a thing something else can use, namely the soul of life, which is not strictly speaking 'in' 4D spacetime, only intersecting it using the decoded organismal carrier.
The working analogy is the story of Flatland. Or, if you prefer, the dimensional framework / tesseract explanation offered by Carl Sagan during one of his COSMOS episodes.
117 posted on
09/28/2013 7:17:04 AM PDT by
MHGinTN
(Being deceived can be cured.)
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