[OneWingedShark]

It's gotta' be one whale of an error correction mechanism since, in general, DNA based life has been around for about 4 billion years on this planet ~ and it didn't turn into some other kind of life in all that time

Or, you know, maybe God meant it when he said "seed after its kind" in Genesis. ;)

[muawiyah]

I suspect an error in translation ~ God would be saying something more like 'all things are possible' ~ and then giving the meditating prophet an example of how a small seed ~ maybe the mustard seed ~ has all the genes it will ever need to grow up to meet whatever the conditions are. Just at the time humans did not comprehend the message beyond knowing it was important and passing it on to us to decipher.

I believe the mustard plant has more genes than any other plant, and more than any of the chordate animals, and more than just about anyting except the largest virus ~ which is just about the size of the smallest bacteria.

Interesting choice that mustard seed ~ a veritable factory of self-assembly ~ can grow anywhere and everywhere!