First, let’s see: And again, here is Crick in his March 19, 1953 letter to his son on his discovery: Notice, how emphatic Crick is: “. . . we believe that the D.N.A. is a code . . . “ Obviously leading scientists agree that DNA reflects coded information that is used in identifiable communication networks in the living cell. (Specifically, machine code that controls protein synthesis in the Ribosome: Zooming out a bit: And looking at the wider metabolic network, we see functionally specific, complex organisation aplenty: So, the presence of FSCO/I, for short (including coded information), should not even be an issue. It is therefore perhaps a back-handed sign of the strength of this point y Quastler: . Read More ›

Recently, a reader wrote to me concerning Stasis: Life goes on but evolution does not happen. Reader asked, Concerning horseshoe crabs and coelecanths, could it be possible that marine-environment organisms are under less pressure to change/evolve than terrestrial organisms? I replied, — Thank you very much for your thoughts! You could of course be correct. And then we face several conceptual tasks prior to research: 1. Specifying testable hypotheses as to why the longest-conserved marine life forms were under less pressure to change/evolve. We must not fall into the trap of assuming that they must be under less pressure because they didn’t evolve. We don’t know for sure that pressure has much to do with it. That is, we assume Read More ›