[The Great Satan]

Yip, I'm actually working on this stuff myself. Most likely the mechanism originally developed as a defense against RNA viruses and/or transposable elements. Over evolutionary time, it was likely co-opted to other roles, such as gene regulation, and as a result became indispensable, even in lineages which may have evolved other defenses against viruses and genome instability.

[jdogbearhunter]

How bout "targeting" liberalism and socialism tendencies? And while your at it, maybe you could help "silence" the RNA responsible for the gun grabbers' behavior.

You'd be a great hero to many of us here!

[gore3000]

Yip, I'm actually working on this stuff myself. Most likely the mechanism originally developed as a defense against RNA viruses and/or transposable elements. Over evolutionary time, it was likely co-opted to other roles, such as gene regulation, and as a result became indispensable, even in lineages which may have evolved other defenses against viruses and genome instability.

Well, that is the evolutionist explanation, but of course there is another explanation. That the function was intelligently designed and that is why it is found apparently just about everywhere in both plants and animals. Evolutionists often claim that the reason something old is still around is that it was 'evolutionarily preserved'. There is no reason to say such a thing except evolutionary bias. An intelligent designer would not constantly reinvent the wheel, but would use what already worked elsewhere in new designs.

What is interesting here is that this adds another method by which the organism tries to prevent changes to it in addition to others we already knew about. This makes it harder for the mutations needed for evolution to be true to succeed.

[jennyp]

Yip, I'm actually working on this stuff myself. Most likely the mechanism originally developed as a defense against RNA viruses and/or transposable elements. Over evolutionary time, it was likely co-opted to other roles, such as gene regulation, and as a result became indispensable, even in lineages which may have evolved other defenses against viruses and genome instability.

Fascinating! So, how much of the genome do you think is made up by these? And are there start & stop codons?