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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

CELL MACHINERY GIVES UP MORE SECRETS

The intelligent machinery of the cell has given up some more secrets, as this
ScienceDaily report details. Some of the intricate biochemical networks that enable genes to express themselves have been traced.

Saturday, September 6, 2008

NO DNA IS JUNK

The vast stretches of DNA that ignorant, hubristic scientists used to dismiss as 'junk' are actually the processors that run the genetic programs, which is how the same genetic coding can produce different results in different organisms. The processor is different.

Add to that changes in the programming and you have a powerful mechanism for making far-reaching differences with a small percentage of alterations.

Background details in this ScienceDaily report.

DARWIN WAS WRONG ABOUT THE FITTEST

Darwin was wrong. It is not survival of the fittest made by random changes and happenstance. It is survival of the best processing. It is not the fittest that survive-- it is those that have the most logical biomolecular processing relative to their environment.

They survive because they are made that way, they are not made that way by survival. It is not a matter of blind chance. It is deliberate processing, and the best output survives.

Darwin saw only the result, and said that was the cause.

And because the processors and programs are both made of DNA it is small wonder that the same or similar results can be arrived at by different routes. Logic is logic.

Friday, September 5, 2008

LIFE IS 68 MOLECULAR MACHINES?

This report from ScienceDaily says that only sixty-eight molecules and their 'choreography' are the foundation of cellular life. And not all them are controlled by genes (surprise, surprise!).

Thursday, September 4, 2008

EVOLUTION IS SLOW BUT POWERFUL PROCESSING

(To put the basic point again, in different words): Just as in the brain the seemingly slow speed at which the signals pass through it are actually part of its stupendous processing power, so too the aeons-slow speed of life's bio-molecular processing is part of the staggering anti-entropic power of its evolutionary progress through countless generations.