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Politics : Evolution
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To: Brumar89 who wrote (11246)12/19/2010 10:18:26 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
I think the problem here has to do with terminology, i.e. "genetic code". The phrase" genetic code" is a convenience for human biologists, who do indeed have symbols for nucleotides, codons, amino acids etc. The "genetic code" as instantiated in the cell isn't a code at all but a molecular mechanism. It deals not with symbols or an external aware reader. If the genetic machinery were indeed a symbolic code, then aware readers and writers could be postulated. But it isn't a code in the typical sense used by information theorists and cryptographers. It is quite self-unaware, and it does not rely on an outside reader or interpreter as far as we know. So as an argument for intelligent design of cellular machinery, I see this as flawed.
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