>The Discovery Institute has posted replies to Ken
>Miller. E.g. here's one on the genetic code:
>
>http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?program=C
RSC%20Responses&command=view&id=1059
>
This persists in the same sort of misrepresentation as
before. My recent post on the universal code gives some
details of how the deviations from the universal code fit into
an evolutionary view.
The objections to Miller's metaphor of British versus
American languages reflect the limits of the metaphor to
some degree. However, in replying the DI also fails to
recognize any difference between an intelligent and
unintelligent reader. It is true that a person should not have
trouble reading color versus colour, though he might have
trouble with lift versus elevator, whereas the ribosome will
get the wrong amino acid, given a gene using a
non-standard code. However, a spell checker will have just
as much trouble with colour versus color.
The DI reply, following some YECs (perhaps convergently)
also tries to misrepresent convergence as
anti-evolutionary. Selection is expected to produce
convergence.
The reason that overly broad claims about a universal
genetic code can give an opening for "creationists" is
because of the opportunity to misrepresent this as a false
claim by "evolutionists".
Dr. David Campbell
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