Thread: Richard Dawkins: Could Someone Explain..

As far as I can tell all of my points have been very consise and relevant to the point I was discussing...

I thought you were arguing that new information cannot be added to the genome as time progresses. This is clearly wrong (considering the origins of life compared to complex organisms around nowadays).

If you actually accept that and were merely saying that the addition of new bases comes about as a random product of the duplication of DNA then I guess you don't disagree with me. Clearly there is a process by which new code is added to the DNA.

I wouldn't say the question is meaningless though, as far as I can tell it's pretty lucid, and I also think that it is not true that nobody has answered the question, as I hear that Dawkins himself responded with some processes by which new information is added in one of his books, as I stated earlier.

Originally Posted by Xei

As far as I can tell all of my points have been very consise and relevant to the point I was discussing...

I thought you were arguing that new information cannot be added to the genome as time progresses. This is clearly wrong (considering the origins of life compared to complex organisms around nowadays).

If you actually accept that and were merely saying that the addition of new bases comes about as a random product of the duplication of DNA then I guess you don't disagree with me. Clearly there is a process by which new code is added to the DNA.

I wouldn't say the question is meaningless though, as far as I can tell it's pretty lucid, and I also think that it is not true that nobody has answered the question, as I hear that Dawkins himself responded with some processes by which new information is added in one of his books, as I stated earlier.

As I said, it did not seem to me like you were making substantial contributions. However, I can see why as it may have seem to not need much elaboration.

On the other hand, I just wanted to note that I meant the question is very difficult to narrow down to evolution and can be an arguement of semantics; ie. replication being addition.

Either way, have you the response he gave...?
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