I will bite on this, because unlike the usual rubbish Roger spouts, this is more on topic.
Fortunately, it doesn't stand up to criticism. The argument is that because the standard genetic code is well optimised against error correction, and because changes to the code will be highly disruptive, it evolution must have proceeded very early on in life's history, that there wouldn't be sufficient time for the billions of experiments required to optimise the code. Assuming for a moment that there are many possible viable genetic codes. Then all of these genetic codes would have coexisted on different parts of the Earth. Gradually all but the small handful of very similar codes would be replaced by the code that replicates the most faithfully. This process would be like hill climbing optimisation, and happens very fast, geologically speaking. The few hundred million years available early on in Earth's history before the last universal common ancestor would be ample for the task. Unlike human languages (referred to in the article), there would be no equivalent of bilingualism at the group boundaries, leading to instability of border areas between different codes. Of course, if there is only one viable genetic code, in a sea of nonviables codes, evolution would have a more difficult job. But then we would probably appeal to the anthropic principle - we happen to live on a planet with a viable genetic code, out of billions that don't, because we must. We now know there are billions of planets out there. We will know shortly, which way the code is. We now have the technology to create alternate artificial genetic codes, and will be able to test the hypotheses that the standard code is unique optimised, or uniquely viable. But either way, it does not pose much of a problem for evolution. On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 08:19:42AM -0400, Roger Clough wrote: > Serious proof of why the theory of evolution is wrong. > > The irreducible complexity of DNA. See attached. > > > > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > > The listing of the attachments is as following: > (1) The remarkable language of DNA.pdf (617.8 K) > > > Dr. Roger B Clough NIST (ret.) [1/1/2000] > See my Leibniz site at > http://independent.academia.edu/RogerClough > > -- > 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
