[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[David Cake]

At 9:39 PM +0000 10/12/07, Stefano Mori wrote:
>On 2007-Dec-10, at 21:28, Patrick Coskren wrote:
>
>>  They've been observed, in lots of different ways.  One of the most 
>>  common is to perform a "knockout" experiment in which one particular 
>>  gene is disabled or (with a "knockin" experiment) modified, and see 
>>  what happens.  A lot of genes are named after the effects that 
>>  mutations in them have in flies.  For instance, when the "hedgehog" 
>>  gene is knocked out of a fruit fly, the embryo develops little 
>>  pointy projections.  A lot of these genes wind up having functions 
>>  with a clear evolutionary role.  For instance, the same gene that 
>>  makes a worm segmented is part of the reason your spine and ribcage 
>>  are set up the same way.
>
>It sounds like genes are a highly abstract, highly advanced language 
>which can somehow instantly create large structures in multiple 
>contexts. The organisation and elegance is staggering.
>
>This is a long long way from "random".

	Well, DUH.

	But that nevertheless, does not prove what you think it proves.