UltimateReality
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Your stupidity on the topic would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic. I'm not sure what you find so amusing since you never actually provide a logical rebuttal or information to back up you silly claims.You said,Which is just hilarious.Just what have I claimed about the code? It contains Shannon information, but not just Shannon information, but information with specificity.
I'm not sure what you are arguing here and I'm not sure you know what you are arguing either. What are you arguing? Your information diatribe above sounds like the ramblings of a mad man. So what is your point? Are you saying dna does not contain code? Are you saying dna doesn't contain Shannon information? Are you saying dna doesn't contain Shannon information that imparts a function? Please do tell.If you say so. I am not certain that 3480397121 does not specify an electronic communication line being opened, but I am certain that there is nothing (neither in information content or specificity) inherently about it that prevents it from resulting in an electronic communication line being opened when entered into a telephone keypad.Here, maybe this example will help you understand: Both the following number sequences contain the same amount of Shannon information, 33.2 bytes: 3480397121 and 602 545 1256. However, the first sequence does not specify anything. The second, however, when entered into a telephone keypad, will result in an electronic communication line being opened.
As a matter of fact, it could be arranged such that 3480397121 results in opening the electronic communication line opened by 602 545 1256, and the sequence 602 545 1256 not specify anything. This is because they are symbols, and symbols have only the information we assign to them.
This is illustrated more clearly by erasing the numbers from your telephone keypad, and replacing them with letters such that 1234567890 become ABCDEFGHIJ. Then punching in FJB EDE ABEF would result in THE EXACT SAME electronic communication line being opened.
This is because altering symbols CANNOT alter the real things they represent. The reason for this is that the actual nature of things symbolized is independent of the symbols that represent them. This is the point I made that you deny is valid; that you are yet rather insistent upon asserting is valid as you demand that "the information and instructions contained in code form in dna are independent of the dna molecule used to transfer the instructions."
This is demonstrably NOT the case for the "information and instructions" for protiens that are "coded" for in DNA.
Please tell me you are joking. This is about the dumbest thing you've said in a week, and boy have you said some stupid crap. As usual you miss the point. So you are saying that if I shake up the molecule and shift all the nucleotides around, the dna will still contain functional information. Not!!! Please clarify this is not what you are inferring before you become the laughing stock of this entire 638 pages!!Well, maybe Intelligent Design Theory doesn't say anything you claim it says, but you insist that ""proteins WERE and ARE the symbols that are transferred within the code," and that "... dna as a molecule is chemically independent from the informational code it carries!!
You are rather emphatic on this point, and it seems rather consistent with the pertinent literature you post from the Intelligent Design sources you cite as definitive. Hence, I am at a loss as to why you insist that I have in any manner constructed a strawman of the notion of "code" utilized by Intelligent Design theorists.
The actual fact of reality is that proteins are not symbols, and the information and instructions contained in "code" form in DNA is chemically indissociable from the DNA molecule.
Once again I drew a comparison, which you have proven totally inept at grasping.If proteins were symbols as you say,
I'm really not sure why you keep repeating this strawman, but you just did it again for the 5th time. Is it making you feel better?then polysaccharides could be functionally indistinguishable from polypeptides, as you would be simply exchanging one symbol (peptide) for another (sugar).
If the "the information and instructions contained in code form in dna are independent of the dna molecule used to transfer the instructions" as you say, you could substitute nucleic acids (provided you did so systematically) and the information transferred (being "chemically independent" from the DNA molecule) would result in the same protein the unaltered DNA molecule coded for.
It most certainly is. And a strawman argument entirely of your imagination and not at all what ID is claiming. The information in dna is carried by the dna. It is a code and that information is independent of the medium carrying it just as as the chemistry of the magnetic tape is independent of the zero's and one's contained on it.In fact, if such chemical independence was actually the case, you could systematically replace adenine with say ... a methyl group; you could then replace cytosine with an acetyl group; you could replace guanine with an alcohol; and you could replace thymine with an ester. Being merely symbols, all of these molecules would be chemically independent of the "the information and instructions" they represent. The resulting molecule would be in every sense "code" for the same protein that the DNA molecule was--with necessarily the exact same "information" content and specificity, since we are only exchanging symbols. Then we would expect that this new molecule would function just like a strand of DNA.
This of course, is just ludicrous.
Are you talking about the manner which is a figment of your strawman imagination???The reason for this is that DNA IS NOT A "CODE" in the manner you say it is!
It sure is nice of you to share information we are already aware of. Once again, I am left trying to remember what point it is that you are making??? You trail off into your delusions of Strawman. Is Toto there with you? Let's see if you agree with these statements: in computer science, a specific sequence of zero's and one's can be used to code for the symbol 'A".(T/F) In computer science, a combination of blocks of these specific sequences of zero's and ones, placed in a specific order, can be used to code for the string of symbols 'D-E-L-U-S-I-O-N-A-L' (T/F). A specific sequence of G's, T's, C's and A's can be used to code for a specific amino acid. (T/F) A combination of blocks of these specific sequences of G's, T's, C's and A's, placed in a specific order, can be used to code a string of amino acids that result in the protein, say, collagen or keratin (T/F).Such substitutions cannot be made in DNA if the product of its function is to remain consistent. If DNA actually has it's very own discrete, specific, necessary, and self-defining function in the production of proteins (I think it does), then it's not actually a symbol for proteins--DNA then is not "code" that means proteins, because DNA doesn't actually function (in the genetics of organisms) that way.
Of course you aren't. Pay no mind to the nice gentlemen in white coats.As plainly demonstrated above, I am NOT the one whose notions result in gibberish.
You're the joke.Your entire post above is quite the joke.
Whatever you say Mr. "dna as a molecule is chemically independent from the informational code it carries!"Rather than pick up a book like Signature In The Cell and read what claims are being made by ID, you rely on atheist websites for all your information. Your only source of information on the topic is what you have read on the internet. How sad. You will remain hopelessly lost in your ignorance.
You are hopelessly lost and I won't repeat the same thing over and over again which you can't seem to understand. The information bearing properties of dna are independent of the molecule. Jumble the G's, T's, C's and A's around and dna will not produce specific and functional proteins, nor will it make copies of itself. Without the specific arrangement of the nucleotides, functional information is not present, not even by chance. Without the specific arrangement of the nucleotides, which, when translated, impart a function, there would be shannon information but not information with specificity. The information in dna, while being expressed chemically, is merely carried by the molecule. The information is chemically independent from the chemistry just like words on a newspaper are independent from the chemistry of the ink, pulp, and other chemical ingredients that make up the information transfer medium known as newspaper. I can't understand why you are unable to grasp this. That is the last time I will explain it for you.
From Wiki:
"Deoxyribonucleic acid (Listeni/diˌɒksiˌraɪbɵ.njuːˌkleɪ.ɨk ˈæsɪd/; DNA) molecules are informational molecules encoding the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses. Along with RNA and proteins, DNA is one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life. Genetic information is encoded as a sequence of nucleotides, recorded using the letters G, A, T, and C. Most DNA molecules are double-stranded helices, consisting of two long polymers of simple units called nucleotides, with backbones made of alternating sugars (deoxyribose) and phosphate groups, with the nucleobases (G, A, T, C) attached to the sugars. DNA is well-suited for biological information storage, since the DNA backbone is resistant to cleavage and the double-stranded structure provides the molecule with a built-in duplicate of the encoded information."
"It is the sequence of these four nucleobases along the backbone that encodes information. This information is read using the genetic code, which specifies the sequence of the amino acids within proteins. The code is read by copying stretches of DNA into the related nucleic acid RNA in a process called transcription."
So Loki, what is with all the teleological verbiage from Wiki on this subject????? I'm not really sure why you refuse to accept it is code. You keep strawmanning about a false claim of what type of code you believe ID to be proposing. Nice waste of bandwidth above tearing down your strawman you built, pumpkin. DNA is digital code, regardless of whether you can fit that in your worldview or not.
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