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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (523275)	10/24/2009 3:35:22 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584327

Do you claim the universe, the Big Bang, isn't the result of God? Though I guess you could say that of life too .... the genetic code is amazingly well designed to minimize errors." That's true of all living things, isn't it? All life is based on the same genetic code. When I said the genetic code is amazingly well designed to minimize errors, I was talking about the universal genetic code in comparison with the host of other codes that could have been (if genetic codes were produced by accidents). ".. they discovered that the naturally occurring genetic code performed better than one million randomly generated genetic codes. They also found that the genetic code in nature resides near the global optimum for all possible genetic codes with respect to its error-minimization capacity.17 Nature's universal genetic code is truly one in a million—or better! The genetic code's error-minimization properties are actually more dramatic than these results indicate. When researchers calculated the error-minimization capacity of one million randomly generated genetic codes, they discovered that the error-minimization values formed a distribution where the naturally occurring genetic code's capacity occurred outside the distribution.18 Researchers estimate the existence of 1018 possible genetic codes possessing the same type and degree of redundancy as the universal genetic code. All of these codes fall within the error-minimization distribution. This finding means that of 1018 possible genetic codes, few, if any, have an error-minimization capacity that approaches the code found universally in nature. Obviously concerned about the implications, some researchers have challenged the optimality of the genetic code.19 The teams from Bath, Princeton, and elsewhere, however, have effectively responded to these challenges.20 " reasons.org But many forms of life are the result of genetic error including homo sapiens.. Excuse me but you don't know that. And by referring to error, which is a form of accident, you are confirming that you DO look to accident as the source of life. but you maintain the humans are the result of a brand new special design..that nothing in homo sapiens is related to other things in the expanding tree of life.?? No, I don't maintain that.