Tuesday, November 18, 2008

*cough*Itoldyouso

A select few people know, since freshman year, that I do not believe in DNA. That is, I didn't believe the current theory on genes was correct, primarily because of "junk DNA." This was not a christian thing. Evolution would not allow for "junk DNA." This is merely me deciding, that given science's record for being wrong at first, that we were missing something.

AND SO. Now. They are rethinking the way genes work.

And honestly, genetics reinforce the idea that everything came from the same place, and is essentially the same thing. All life on this planet have DNA that tells their cells how to grow. The same string of DNA makes all the different type of cells. Is DNA just some kind of programming language, as binary is?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

is still dont understand why it matters so much to you. nor do i understand how you could question science as a 14 year old and feljustified the science may have found a better system. sounds like a coincidence started from a teenagers attempt to be different. no offence. but i heard from someone around that age you also question the existence of dinosaurs lol, i hope that isnt true. but cmon do you really feel that vindicated?

Stef Ferguson said...

dinosaurs? no dinosaurs are real lol. we've got proof. TONS of proof.

but the thing about DNA was that they didn't think the "junk" did anything. when now we know that it does damn near *everything*. And now theyve discovered that molecules attached to the outside of the DNA strands can change how the code works, and can be passed down during replication.

cheesewheel said...

so we can shape birth or weed out family genetic faults, or make smaller versions of ourselfs to battle eachother with in some kinda twisted game of pokemon? because thats pretty awwsome.