The code that is DNA

[Succubus]

A time travelling whale with magical powers is enough to explain all of existence. We need more than a story that kinda explains stuff if you squint.

A time travelling whale you say:

Another thing that got forgotten was the fact that against all probability a sperm whale had suddenly been called into existence several miles above the surface of an alien planet.
And since this is not a naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very little time to come to terms with its identity as a whale before it then had to come to terms with not being a whale any more.

And the whales last thoughts were, 'I wonder if it will be friends with me?'

Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the Universe than we do now.

Sorry. But she (?) started it!

Perhaps the late Douglas Adams was properly prophetic and all of our reality actually is nothing more than being  'Diety snot'?

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You saying that I have not defended my assertions is bogus, while Sungula keeps saying Tour uttered a strawman and then runs away
Oh and 40000 fly generations have produced nothing, thank you lenski

Where are you getting your number of generations from? It would take more than 1500 years to run that experiment at roughly 25 fly generations per year. It would take 16 years to get 400 generations and 60 years to get 1,500 generations. Are you sure you haven't misplaced a decimal point?

It's a floating decimal you see. He started with thousands and it grew to many thousands, it then stabilized at 30,000 for a while.

It now stands at 40,000 generations.

He does have a point though. After 40ky flies should be the size of Steinway fucking pianos.