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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (19205)	1/31/2005 11:02:39 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Thanks for welcome back. Sorry the vagaries of life are providing you with more challenges (and less pleasant ones) than you deserve. I have a friend who's dad is being parasitized by a Bible Thumper who goes to church on Sunday and insinuates her self into the life of this recently widowed man the rest of the time. She has him completely under her control now. Very sad that he has to share his inheritance prospects with this rapacious woman. But on to other things... I know TP isn't quite ready to embrace my interpretation of the Junk DNA function, but I figured I'd put the notion out there just to see what the response was. What is interesting is that the Junk DNA sequences are conserved largely between fish, birds, reptiles, amphibian and mammals. Such an alignment for me suggests that it does have a purpose and that those behaviors and other non-protein related behaviors may be templated across these "unused" sequences... I'd posted a link showing that in a particular case an "unrelated" gene sequence had an inhibitory function. I think life is a continuous valued function and it would be as surprising for me to have Junk DNA serve no function (or an alignment-only function as TP suggests) as to have the functional equation that describes the Earth to be described by only 10,000 factors. While that sounds like a lot, it is less than the distinct picture elements in a strip of your screen about the width of a pencil.