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Self assembly into molecular machines like DNA, or little tiny motors that work on heat differentials seems to be built into the demiurge of the atoms themselves. Eventually I think they'll find that life can be caused to self assemble ~ possibly through the mediation and cogitation of supercomputer segments actually found within DNA.

Really ?

You seem to be where I was a number of years ago.

Trying desperately to convince myself that I was free to do what I pleased.

I suggest you look at the math or probabilities necessary for random mutations, conserved and selected in any given environment that would result in an increase of information. Evolution is all about death.

Everything we know about self-assembly has been developed within the last 10 years. We live in a universe where the teeny tiny stuff self-assembles. The only question is where does the direction come from ~ the old guys two centuries ago imagined macro forces impinge on the life force, whatever that was, and cause it in some manner to improve through competition ~ that's evolution.

The reality of self-assembly is that in some manner the information necessary to provide for the details is implicit in the being of matter itself ~ or, accessible by matter from different dimensional levels (the half dozen 'rolled up' dimensions perhaps, and who knows what's going on over there eh).

The MIND OF GOD would be expressed in this universe in such a manner. it's not a clock.

Re-reading your note, you are mistaken if you think I'm some sort of doctrinaire hardcore evolutionist. Frankly, i don't think that process works ~ the connection between the probability of survival under certain conditions is too tenuous UNLESS 'somebody' is thinking about it, and that would likely be the computer-like segments of DNA.

Let's get back to the mustard seed ~ Jesus told us to consider it, so that's what I'm doing ~ and it's set up so it actually senses conditions external to the cell nucleus, and then turns on the genes needed to help it survive whatever those conditions are. We don't know the precise sensory mechanism outside of temperature and humidity, but the results are always spectacular.

At the moment I'm wondering why the Skolt Sa'ami have an incidence of 18% worth of dental displasia involving three or more teeth! That's a multi gene condition controlling that one ~ and all it does is give them a better grip on frozen reindeer meat. Seriously ~ you can cut off raw fresh steak easier as well ~ and as a bothersome as it is to get your teeth missing or twisted like that, it had to be thought up by a very desperate information processing system.

BTW, God created information ~ hope you caught that ~ it's all His stuff ~ we just borrow it.