How much of the Human Genome is Functional?
Good response.

How much of the Human Genome is Functional?
You do realize that I’m not a neo-Darwinist? The evolutionary mechanism of random genetic mutations and natural selection is limited to the lowest levels of functional complexity. It cannot produce any qualitatively novel system that requires more than 1000 specifically arranged amino acid residues this side of trillions upon trillions of years of time (Link). It’s a statistical problem due to the nature of sequence space at higher and higher levels of functional complexity…

How much of the Human Genome is Functional?
@dana:

Prions are interesting. However, prions don’t really self-replicate themselves starting with random amino acids. Usually the same amino-acid residue sequence is required to already exist in a pre-formed protein before this pre-existing protein can then acquire the 3D prion conformation. The prion simply refolds the pre-existing protein with the same or similar sequence into a new conformational shape.

This isn’t like a self-replicating organism where randomly arranged nucleic acid molecules are specifically sequenced by protein-based machinery based on a pre-existing DNA sequence template. In other words, the way prions works is not like replicating a complex mechanical machine from scratch – from a pile of fundamental building blocks.

After the Flood
Thank you Ariel. Hope you are doing well these days. Miss seeing you down at Loma Linda. Hope you had a Great Thanksgiving!

The Flood
Thank you Colin. Just trying to save lives any way I can. Not everything that the government does or leaders do is “evil” BTW…

The Flood
Only someone who knows the future can make such decisions without being a monster…

Pacific Union College Encouraging Homosexual Marriage?
Where did I “gloss over it”?

Review of “The Naked Emperor” by Pastor Conrad Vine
I fail to see where you have convincingly supported your claim that the GC leadership contributed to the harm of anyone’s personal religious liberties? – given that the GC leadership does not and could not override personal religious liberties in this country, nor substantively change the outcome of those who lost their jobs over various vaccine mandates. That’s just not how it works here in this country. Religious liberties are personally derived. Again, they simply are not based on a corporate or church position, but rely solely upon individual convictions – regardless of what the church may or may not say or do.

Yet, you say, “Who cares if it is written into law”? You should care. Everyone should care. It’s a very important law in this country. The idea that the organized church could have changed vaccine mandates simply isn’t true – particularly given the nature of certain types of jobs dealing with the most vulnerable in society (such as health care workers for example).

Beyond this, the GC Leadership did, in fact, write in support of personal religious convictions on this topic – and there are GC lawyers who have and continue to write personal letters in support of personal religious convictions (even if these personal convictions are at odds with the position of the church on a given topic). Just because the GC leadership also supports the advances of modern medicine doesn’t mean that the GC leadership cannot support individual convictions at the same time. Both are possible. This is not an inconsistency.