RE: The code that is DNA
December 18, 2019 at 1:22 am
(This post was last modified: December 18, 2019 at 1:23 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(December 18, 2019 at 12:39 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: At the end of the day, we're pretty sure that all life is related for the exact same reasons that we can point to a baby daddy on springer. Doubting common descent is necessarily claiming that paternity tests don't work. You ready to go out on that limb for Jesus, John?
There's nothing particularly interesting about phylogenies. It's just a matching game with a lot of assumptions. You have spots and stripes, I have stripes and no spots, so we hypothesize a common ancestor with stripes. It's the same concept at the genetic level. The geneticist spreads out our genome, aligns it at their discretion, sees that you have sequence TTAG but I have sequence CCAG, and then hypothesize a common ancestor with sequence --AG.
I don't know anything about paternity tests; but we have access to a parent's DNA, that alone makes the comparison with phylogeny problematic. Or do you have access to the first living organism's DNA/RNA, so we can run a quick paternity test? If so I retract my position.