tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post8796616934458272028..comments2024-03-27T00:26:19.644+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: Evolution - The Meaning of InformationRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-47056355143951726602014-08-23T20:17:18.867+01:002014-08-23T20:17:18.867+01:00Yes, I say like Anowanul Kabir, Thank you Rosa. Yo...Yes, I say like Anowanul Kabir, Thank you Rosa. You obviously are a great teacher!<br /><br />But even more intriguing and fascinating information can be found in your own comment, Rosa, where you write: Hox genes. Carry out large-scale instructions like 'grow a leg' or 'grow an eye'. Interesting thing is that if you use a mouse hox gene for growing an eye on a fruit fly leg, it grows an eye, but a fruit fly eye. Hox genes control embryonic development.<br /><br />Why not write a new blog on that topic (how hox genes control embryonic development)? How, for example, do the interactions between genes/inheritance and environment look like, so that a mouse hox gene used "for growing an eye on a fruit fly leg [results in a new] eye, but [then] a fruit fly eye". <br /><br />In Genesis one can't read anything at all about how the Creator was working when creating life and different life forms. Except for the information in Genesis 2:7 (Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being) and Genesis 2: 21-22 (So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man). <br /><br />I therefore suspect that you know much more about evolution and genetics than Almighty God in Heaven does. But remember, Rosa, this not an order from me. I know that you're a busy woman (for example very active in the Facebook group "WHY ATHEISM?" plus writing new intriguing blog articles many times a week. So you don't have time, like God, to choose a day of rest going on for a thousand years or so. Helmer von Helvetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02136543309048013677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-15301631456259653762012-04-23T00:03:54.963+01:002012-04-23T00:03:54.963+01:00I point people who put forward the information arg...I point people who put forward the information argument to this article regularly. I would even go further and say that there is no such thing as information in genes at all (at least in the sense they mean). In other words, it's not really a language. It's just chemicals doing what chemicals do.Stooshiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09541609914500686900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-45931587517388738742012-04-06T23:33:11.000+01:002012-04-06T23:33:11.000+01:00> but does there exist a context in which any r...> but does there exist a context in which any random scrbbling has meaning ?<br /><br />In a selective environment in which there there is replication with errors.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-61777691415437588912012-04-05T21:10:30.993+01:002012-04-05T21:10:30.993+01:00Rosa,
Subtle but valid points! As the Cellular Aut...Rosa,<br />Subtle but valid points! As the Cellular Automation called "Game of Life" shows new complexity does arise from simple rules. But another way of looking at is that in a deterministic universe the future contains no new information than the past. Which view does your article tend to support ?<br />Another interesting point you made, is that meaning occurs only in context. <br />This is a bit off topic; but does there exist a context in which any random scrbbling has meaning ?Alphanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-64615679507262799312012-02-03T01:02:16.000+00:002012-02-03T01:02:16.000+00:00Hox genes. Carry out large-scale instructions like...Hox genes. Carry out large-scale instructions like 'grow a leg' or 'grow an eye'. Interesting thing is that if you use a mouse hox gene for growing an eye on a fruit fly leg, it grows an eye, but a fruit fly eye.<br /><br />Hox genes control embryonic development.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-27648712392413227792012-02-02T22:57:43.647+00:002012-02-02T22:57:43.647+00:00The BBC did a great series of 3 programmes about t...The BBC did a great series of 3 programmes about the cell. We know so much about DNA now. small chunks of DNA control the expression of other genes. Not only that, but there are master controller genes that switch groups of controllers on and off. And this chain of controllers could go further.<br /><br />Through this method, an entire eye can appear in a fruit fly in, for instance the tip of it's leg. Not only that, but the same controller gene from a mouse can be inserted into the fruit fly gene and cause the same effect. And , of course, all this without breaking the second law of theromodynamics.Stooshiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09541609914500686900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-5449265323226176992012-02-02T22:46:56.902+00:002012-02-02T22:46:56.902+00:00Holy cow! I have been looking for a concise and ea...Holy cow! I have been looking for a concise and easy-to-understand explanation of the 'information' thingy for a while and this is it! Richard Dawkin did write a very lengthy article on this shortly after some idiot creationists on youtube published a video of him failing to explain whether increment of information in DNA can be observed or something like that. But it was so huge I never never even dared to start reading it. Thank you Rosa. You obviously are a great teacher!Anowanul Kabirhttps://plus.google.com/u/0/105202833136117660585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-86194394361100831502011-12-21T12:03:21.878+00:002011-12-21T12:03:21.878+00:00Wonderfully concise explanation that anyone (who c...Wonderfully concise explanation that anyone (who cares to) can understand.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-54021884886908331522011-12-21T11:12:43.861+00:002011-12-21T11:12:43.861+00:00Absolutely agreed, and trouble enough I have been ...Absolutely agreed, and trouble enough I have been having with tyres without them being nibbled!<br /><br />I thought yuour other readers might enjoy "Textual criticism of DNA - proof of evolution!" which they can find at http://ow.ly/7FGee (Something Surprising Blog). Hope you don't mind a little self-publicity.Plasma Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.com