On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 7:54 PM 'Brent Meeker < [email protected]> wrote:
>>Evolution is unlikely to have stumbled upon a complex method of achieving >> intelligence if there was a much simpler basic procedure to do the same >> thing > > > *> You must not have looked at how DNA is use to code for proteins. There > are huge strecthes DNA that are just unused copies of other segments.* > I am well aware that there are huge sections of DNA that just repeat the same thing for hundreds or even thousands of times, but I don't see the relevance because if they just repeat the same short phrase over and over then they contain no information. And there are other DNA sections that once were genes but over the eons have been turned off (such as genes in birds that once produced teeth in their ancestors). These sections don't do anything anymore and the way we know they no longer do anything is that the variation from individual to individual in those sections is much much greater than the variation in the parts that still have a purpose. Because they do nothing Natural Selection can't edit out errors in DNA duplication so they accumulate from generation to generation. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3NnZRkvwJg43YgbcG5AzC8-zsT03sd2odddxjrKhHW5Q%40mail.gmail.com.
