Subject: La larga pausa de Dr. Dawkins

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La larga pausa de Dr. Dawkins



Written by Brian Bierman
Saturday, 22 September 2007
There is a video clip circulating the internet that has an interviewer
asking Richard Dawkins a very straightforward question: "Can you give an
example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen
to increase information in the genome?" The response is a very awkward and
long pause. Dawkins looks stumped as he hems and haws. Sensing the
awkwardness, he tells the videographer to turn off the camera. When the
video resumes, so does his usual eloquence. But he doesn't answer the
question. The interview was apparently conducted in September, 1997.

Ten years later, Dawkins addresses the embarrassing moment with an essay of
over 5000 words that promises to finally answer the question but it leaves
one totally unsatisfied. He devotes 3 lengthy paragraphs to the interview,
7 to information theory and its history and the remainder to biological
information and finally, evolution. The result, and I paraphrase (and you
should be glad I do); we know information has increased because the genomes
of higher organisms are longer than those of microbes. But that doesn't
matter because vertebrate DNA is primarily composed of junk, pseudogenes and
redundant components. Is that what he does to students that dare question
him in the classroom? Bore them into accepting his premise?
That's it. Nothing observed. No empirical evidence; just a grand inference
and a weak one at that....and he still doesn't answer the question. What
struck me were the obsolete theories invoked to explain his position. The
junk DNA idea is absolutely passé and has been nothing but a hindrance to
research for over 20 years. Dawkins verbally struts like a peacock
convinced he actually knows something about DNA. The truth is the entire
scientific community is like a group of primitive jungle tribesmen watching
a helicopter that was left idling while the pilot, unaware of their
presence, is out taking a restroom break.

We can see DNA. We can sequence it. After many years of poking at it with
our figurative spears, we know it is a major component of cell replication
and a major player in animal reproduction but we just don't know exactly how
it works. No wonder Francis Crick bought into panspermia to explain it.
Organization on this level (or any other) just isn't observed to come about
on its own so we have to dream up a magical place or time beyond our ability
to observe where this can come about without a creator.


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