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Politics : Evolution

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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (11252)12/20/2010 11:35:20 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
I'm sorry but you're misinformed. It IS a symbolic code. You don't have to take my word for it. Yockey says so:

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The book Information Theory, Evolution and the Origin of Life is written by Hubert Yockey, the foremost living specialist in bioinformatics. The publisher is Cambridge University press. Yockey rigorously demonstrates that the coding process in DNA is identical to the coding process and mathematical definitions used in Electrical Engineering. This is not subjective, it is not debatable or even controversial. It is a brute fact:

“Information, transcription, translation, code, redundancy, synonymous, messenger, editing, and proofreading are all appropriate terms in biology. They take their meaning from information theory (Shannon, 1948) and are not synonyms, metaphors, or analogies.” (Hubert P. Yockey, Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, Cambridge University Press, 2005)
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Don't reject facts because you don't like the implications.
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