Glen Davidson
Posts: 1100 Joined: May 2006
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Has dementia taken Dense, or is it just the usual? It's hard to tell with the IDiots:
Suddenly Information Matters in Biology
Quote | Since the 1950s, the concept of information has acquired a strikingly prominent role in many parts of biology. This enthusiasm extends far beyond domains where the concept might seem to have an obvious application, such as the biological study of perception, cognition, and language, and now reaches into the most basic parts of biological theory. Hormones and other cellular products through which physiological systems are regulated are typically described as signals. Descriptions of how genes play their causal role in metabolic processes and development are routinely given in terms of “transcription”, “translation”, and “editing”. The most general term used for the processes by which genes exert their effects is “gene expression”. The fates of cells in a developing organism are explained in terms of their processing of “positional information” given to them from surrounding cells and other factors. Many biologists think of the developmental processes by which organisms progress from egg to adult in terms of the execution of a “developmental program”. Other biologists have argued for a pivotal role for information in evolution rather than development: John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmáry (for example) suggest that major transitions in evolution depend on expansions in the amount and accuracy with which information is transmitted across generations. And some have argued that we can only understand the evolutionary role of genes by recognizing an informational “domain” that exists alongside the domain of matter and energy. |
Gee, were the 1950s a couple of years ago, or what? Paleyists and the other creationists were blithering about watches, common design, and no transitional fossils, while scientists were working out DNA and how it encodes information in a manner that was conservative enough to preserve information while being capable of incorporating changes as well, as evolution does. In the '90s, or so, some of the brightest of the creationist dullards finally realized that biology deals in a great deal of information, and thought that morons would be impressed (as they likely were themselves--they were the brightest of them, they weren't the bright).
"Suddenly," ignorant trolls like Dense woke up to information decades after the scientists were dealing with it on a molecular level, even though they'd dealt with it as "genes" decades before DNA's structure was known.
tjguy comments:
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Intelligent Design has had a positive influence on science! |
Uh, yeah, Crick and Watson were influenced by bozos like Denton.
Glen Davidson
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Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of coincidence---ID philosophy
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