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Politics : Should God be replaced?

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To: cosmicforce who wrote (19199)	1/29/2005 10:32:17 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) of 28931

I don't think the other part of it is junk at all. The driving force behind evolution is descent with modification. This means that the information is copied (children) but that it is not copied exactly. The main way that genes are shuffled in a non-random fashion is by sex. The DNA from the father and from the mother are lined up side-by-side and snippets from one alternated with the other are included in the new child DNA. These snippets must include whole genes or else the gene function is destroyed. Now the father and mother are different, their DNA is different, the end of a gene in the father might not be precisely the end of the corresponding gene from the mother. There needs to be some slack in the information stream so that the changover happens between genes. (Sometimes this just doesn't work and the result is usually not a pregnancy, but sometimes it results in a birth defect).

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