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From: j.nobel.daggett@gmail.com (LDagget)
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Subject: Re: Wistar Symposium "Mathematical Challenge to Neo-Darwinism".
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 14:27:57 +0000
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El Kabong wrote:

> Ron Dean wrote:

>> We've discussed this before. I think originally the genetic code was 
>> robust, but over time due to the 2/ND law and missed errors in copying,
>> 
>> the robustness declined and continues to decline. This I
>> think was anticipated from the beginning of the genetic code and
>> several
>> 
>> proofreading and repair machines were implanted into the code. But even
>> 
>> these proofreading and repair systems are subject to errors over time. 
>> However, they still catch overwhelming numbers of mutations and
>> corrects
>> 
>> them, but not all. The evidence I think supports this. Still, each 
>> generation inherits the mutations from previous generations and
>> develops
>> 
>> new mutations, all of which is passed on down. At some distant time the
>> 
>> genetic code in each species becomes increasingly less robust until 
>> reproduction
>> ceases and we see this in many extinctions as recorded in the fossil 
>> record.

> Your invocation of the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics is a
> common creationist diversion.  It started as a deliberate
> misrepresentation, and spread among the ignoratti such as
> yourself.


Among the errors in Ron Dean's post is that he has confused the 
meaning of "Genetic Code". He's invoking some confused hodge-podge
thing which is some mix of genome sequence and the Genetic Code.
Genetic Code of course means the matching between nucleotide 
triplets and amino acids or stops. 

Of course it is also true that he has utterly failed to understand
how the 2nd law of thermodynamics actually works within a system
that is a chemical engine that burns through vast quantities of 
free energy.