Friday, December 13, 2013

Immaterial Reality Times Two

Not too long ago, I posted about the notion that information is the immaterial reality that cannot be explained by reference to material causes.

Now this.  

Not only is the genetic code a language, it is two languages with two different purposes stacked onto the same chemical sequence. 

From the original article:  "The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other"

David Klinghoffer responds:  "But think about how implausible this is. Let's say I write an article in English about Subject A. But ingeniously I choose my words in such a way that the article can also be read in a different language, providing information about a related but separate Subject B. Meditate for a moment on the ingenuity this would take -- not only that, but the forethought, with imagining a complex, distant goal being the first step in the process."
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other. - See more at: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other. - See more at: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf
The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control. These two meanings seem to have evolved in concert with each other. - See more at: http://www.evolutionnews.org/2013/12/genome_composes080111.html#sthash.KHQsXchU.dpuf



So once again, the issues that are clear but not addressed by materialist guessing games about how the chemical sequences got strung together are

1.  How does materialism explain how the concepts and ideas that are carried on the sequences originated?

2.  How does the convention needed for a language to be both "written" by one entity and "understood" by another come into being by purely natural causes?

3.  And now, given the difficulty of how this could ever happen by random processes, how does it happen twice, simultaneously, on the same carrier sequence?

Ideas are immaterial.   Plans are immaterial.   Materialists are looking for answers in the wrong place.

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