RE: The code that is DNA
December 7, 2019 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 7, 2019 at 5:03 pm by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 6, 2019 at 8:51 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: Boru, I think you’re splitting hairs concerning the definition of law.
“Scientific laws (also known as natural laws) imply a cause and effect between the observed elements and must always apply under the same conditions.”
I use it to describe the way things are always known to happen say 2+2 will always =4. Water always boils when certain conditions are met. But there is nothing that governs the order of nucleotides and that in itself lies the mystery of how these instructions came about.
John 6IX, am I in agreement with you?
I haven't really been following the discussion.
We agree perhaps only insofar as DNA, or even RNA, are not things observed to emerge naturally from the environment the way crystals or rainclouds do; they seem exclusive to living organisms, which as Brewer's video suggests, creates a type of chicken-and-egg problem. However, once DNA is in existence as is the case today, all of its attributes including its transcription to RNA with its subsequent translation into proteins, are indeed governed by a careful biochemical dance whose laws are knowable.
So in conclusion, I agree there is a mystery with its origins; but I disagree if you extend this mystery to its current structure and function.