Genetic Entropy & the Mystery of the Genome by John C. Sanford
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This book is a devastating treatment of the “primary axiom” of evolutionary thinking. Some amazing stuff here.
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Ruh-roh! I’m guessing that the second law of thermodynamics also applies to genetics.
This will likely put Randman and Darwin in like a totally bummed out state of entropy.☹️
Ha!
Of course the the ‘primary axiom’ here he ‘devastates’ is random mutation and natural selection. Merely scientific theory. Since he is overturning something so foundational with his un-cited ‘mutational meltdown’ idea, chaos in the world of science must be right behind.
In fact it seems so devastating Wilson appears to be stunned into not actually being able to mention a single detail here in his sentence-long review. Someone get the smelling salts.
I’ll re-synopsize: The original error (creationism) evolved into intelligent design with mutations which apparently melted into this goop.
Glad to see you again, RandMan.
Actually Randi, I hope you have been well. I’ve been wondering where you were. Hope everything is OK.
I looked at the Amazon reviews of the book. They seemed to split along party lines. I’d like to take a look at this book, but I don’t think that will happen anytime soon. (matter, aka life, keeps acting on me randomly. ; – )
I do conceed that you are not in “a totally bummed out state of entropy.”!
Just a normal state of entropy like me.
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Thank you for the review and recommendation. Adding this to my wish list ASAP.
Hope you get to read the book before you mutate into a less interested version of yourself!????
When I was but a knave, I took an engineering class on signal modulation. Information transfer garbles the signal a little bit. It’s not exactly the second law of thermo, but it bears a resemblance to it. There is no perfect Xerox image, and if you make a copy of a copy of a copy, it never, *ever* clarifies the image.
Animal cells have a lot of machinery built in to ensure genes get transcribed correctly and to catch errors. It really is fearful and wonderful but there are failures. I think that’s where cancers come from. Evolutionists will tell you that most mutations are not adaptive and that it’s only one in a zillion that gets passed on.