>>12611601You're suspicions are mostly correct. It is impossible to build a convincing sophisticated computational circuit using point mutations in any reasonable time scale. This point was made intuitively by Pauli in the 1950s, when it was a response to modern synthesis evolution. It has been made by nonscientists as well, who find it hard to buy the idea of evolution happening by random point mutation. The reality that there is a learning mechanism for modifying the genome is obviously true. It’s a form of intelligent design, but the designer isn’t God. It’s RNA.
The mutations are controlled by RNA networks, and the result is much closer to intelligent design than to modern synthesis, because the mechanism of rewriting DNA is authorly, proceeding by inserting functional chunks into the genome, not by any random process. The random hypothesis is simply impossible, the IDers are right about this.
