Thanks to the indefatigable BA77, we have the new (March 1, 2013) XVIVO animation on xRNA:
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Notice, the recurrent cybernetic themes and discussions.
Also, am I the only one who sees a space-ships and planets metaphor there?
Thoughts welcome. END
BA77: Thanks for keeping us up on such developments!
Not to belittle this excellent animation from XVIVO, and the exciting avenues of research that extracellular RNA communication and control open up, but there just SO MUCH that is left unsaid in such a short video. Much of what is left unsaid in this present video was said in the last video XVIVO put out:
i.e. Although the human body is divisible into a seemingly endless multitude of different parts and systems,,,
,,,there is HUGE something that is ‘lost in translation’ in this reduction to the multitude of parts and/or systems, a ‘oneness of being’, a soul, that simply can’t be reduced to the multitude of parts no matter however one may choose to divide and define his parts,,,
From whence does this ‘unknown conductor’ arise so as to conspire to keep all these seemingly endless multitude of parts focused on the single task of life until that moment of death when the music of life is suddenly cut off, as if in mid crescendo, leaving us begging for more music? But the sadness is temporary, for the music of the life has not stopped at the moment of bodily death, it has just changed to a better venue to which, hopefully, we shall all be patrons one day:
Here is the entire Near Death Experience TV show, with Mary Jo Rapini and Bob Woodruff, that was aired on ABC in August 2011:
Boy, it’s too bad they put together this nice movie and then choose this gal as the narrator. I was about halfway through before I could focus on the substance. I can’t put my finger on it, but something about her tone is really annoying/distracting. Where’s Morgan Freeman or John Rhys-Davies when you need them?
OT:
Another interesting thing to point out about RNA’s is that they have recently, from ENCODE research, ‘prompted a redefinition of the concept of a gene’,,,
And what is interesting in the redefining of the RNA as the ‘fundamental unit of inheritance’, instead of the gene, is that microRNA’s are ‘tearing apart’ the evolutionary tree of life:
And this ‘serious incongruence’ for RNA’s amongst mammal species is on top of the fact that the alleged genetic similarity between chimps and humans is now shown to be dropping far below the 99% similarity Darwinists had originally portrayed it to be just a few short years ago:
BA77, excellent information buddy, especially the video on NDE’s.
There are many good veridical NDE’s out there that its just a matter of time before the medical community embraces the evidence for them, but as usual the materialists will always try to find a way to explain them in naturalistic ways no matter how rediculous their explanations are.
Hello BA77, hope all as well!
I’ve been busy lately but I would still like to hear an epic thrashing of genetic determinism 😀
We all live every single moment of our life near death. Every single experience we have is a “near death” experience. To look at the experience of someone else and think that they were somehow closer to death than you are right now is just a denial of your mortality. Wishful thinking.
Mung???
,,,and we can thus discount their NDE testimonies as genuine because we are all having Near Death Experiences right now but we are in denial of our own mortality???
BA77:
What this video presentation certainly emphasizes is that the “central dogma of biology” is inside, out.
That is, the “dogma”—wow! that’a religious sounding word—is that DNA produces RNA produces proteins = life. What we’re now seeing in much of the experimental results that have recently been coming out is that it is RNA that is in charge of “life”, and that RNA “uses” DNA for its own purposes. If this is indeed true, then the Darwinists will have to explain how the DNA-directing ability of RNA came about. (IOW, when DNA is ‘transcribed’, it transcribes RNA, which then begins to use the ‘coding’ portion (what, 4%) of the DNA in its job of building life, caring for life, and making sure life continues to be reproduced and adaptive.)
We’re quickly reaching mind-boggling complexity, a complexity that “random searches” simply cannot discover.
PaV, its pretty close to the chicken and egg, DNA-protein, dilemma at the origin of life,,, as well as ATP-enzyme dilemma,,,
i.e. DNA makes RNA but RNA tells DNA how to make RNA,,, and arround and around we go,, 🙂
PaV, the falsification of the ‘dogma’ goes deeper though,,
Another little known fact, a fact that is also very antagonistic to the genetic reductionism model of neo-Darwinism, is that, besides the non-Random and targeted mutations to DNA, even our thoughts and feelings are now found to ‘epigenetically’ control the gene expression of our bodies:
Of related note to mental states having a pronounced epigenetic effect on genes (which is completely contrary to the materialistic presupposition of Darwinism), it turns out that having the positive ‘mental state of love’ has a tremendous impact on health:
Of course from a Theistic perspective this tangible effect of love is to be expected, whereas from a materialistic perspective, well to put it mildly, from a materialistic perspective it is counter-intuitive that the ‘healing power of love’ could have any effect:
Verse and music:
related note:
BA77:
There’s various levels to this enigma, as you point out, but the one that most struck me was how we find ourselves in the position of looking at RNA telling DNA what to do, rather than the other way around. It’s a kind of ‘paradigm shift’ of sorts.
Future “transcriptome” studies should be interesting.
BA77;
I watched the video, and have some questions;
1. I couldn’t tell if he was suggesting that that the underlying genetic code changes according to environmental demands or not, and wether or not these changes can be inherited.
2. Also wondering if he was suggesting that adaptations to environmental changes is the source of genetic variation.
3. Also had two questions regarding the genetic repair mechanisms;
A. “Repair” to what standard? a code that it is strictly inherited, or a code best suited for the environment at that particular time?
B. Also wondering how these genetic repair mechanism do not result in, if there is a stable environment, a stable unchanging genome. Further more, does not consciousness itself defy entropy?
Thanks, look forward to feedback!
Correction; I watched the video you linked called;
Non-Random and Targeted Mutations (Epigentics to the level of modifying DNA)
so that is what my questions are based off of
ATS:
Though in technical language, it’s pretty clear that he was saying that mutations are ‘targeted’ to deal with environmental stress and that the ‘non-random’ changes to the genome can be inherited (selected) since they increase fitness.,,,
He was not saying that the environment is the ‘source’ of the genetic variation but merely that the stress from the environment ‘triggered’ targeted, ‘non-random’, mutations to occur in the genome at specific locations within the genome.,,
I do not fully understand in what context they were using the term ‘genetic repair mechanism’ in the paper referenced in the video, but I agree with you that ‘genetic repair mechanism’ is a very anti-Darwinian fact that should, in a overall view of things, result in ‘a stable unchanging genome’.
Sorry I couldn’t be of more help. If you have more questions, I suggest that you ask UD commentator ‘lifepsy’ as this is really pretty much his neck of the woods and I, like you, am pretty much a novice in this area.
as to ‘does not consciousness itself defy entropy?’
Yes:
BA77, thanks again for breaking that down for me.
Several questions, that in mind;
1. lifepsy, how do i get a hold of him?
2. is all life conscious? and if so, where does genetic entropy fall into that, given that consciousness is not subject to it, and given that the genome should no degrade if the environment is stable?
thanks again!
ATS:
Here is lifepsy’s blog:
BIOTA CURVE
http://biota-curve.blogspot.com/
“is all life conscious?”
No, but,,,
Is the Soul Immortal? (J.P. Moreland)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....age#t=411s