Comment Law, DNA and Ribosome (Score 1) 895
I want to tell an analogy and then ask a couple questions. All comments welcomed:
If a person wants to construct an impressive building, first of all, he sets the foundations in a intelligent and regular fashion, and plans them in a way suitable to their future purpose and results. Then he expertly divides them into sections and apartments. Next, he orders and arranges the apartments, and decorates them with tapestries, then illuminates them with electric lights. Then, in order to renew his creative works in that magnificent place, he makes fresh creations and new changes and transformations in every point of it.
Now, think of a creature whose life begins in the middle of the last step of this construction, same as his ancestors' lives. This creature observes his surroundings, what is happening around. He realizes that even if everything seems happening by itself, there are some laws ruling inside. For example, according to a formula, he can calculate at what time all lights will turn on/off tomorrow, or twenty days later. In his laboratory, he can even duplicate some of the events/results with conforming to the related formulas/laws.
After his observations, if this creature says that it is the law who does everything in the entire building, is this a right claim? If something happens in accordance to a law, to describe how it happened, is it sufficient to prove the law's existence or event's conformance to the law? Can somebody claim that all people are slaves of traffic rules and traffic rules control everybody to obey themselves? Or, does it mean that there is "some kind of" ruler who firstly sets those rules and then, manages things according to that rules?
As all of us know, there is a relation between DNA and beings' attributes. Let's try to describe this relation:
1) Does it mean that it is the DNA who does these changes?
The US has a constitution which is even written in lots of books. Can we say that this "set of laws" manages every event related with it, penalizes who does not obey to it, rewards who obey to it?
2) Or, is it the proteins or mitochondria or ribosomes who "knows to read" DNA and "understands" it and acts in compliance to what is written?
What do you think?
If a person wants to construct an impressive building, first of all, he sets the foundations in a intelligent and regular fashion, and plans them in a way suitable to their future purpose and results. Then he expertly divides them into sections and apartments. Next, he orders and arranges the apartments, and decorates them with tapestries, then illuminates them with electric lights. Then, in order to renew his creative works in that magnificent place, he makes fresh creations and new changes and transformations in every point of it.
Now, think of a creature whose life begins in the middle of the last step of this construction, same as his ancestors' lives. This creature observes his surroundings, what is happening around. He realizes that even if everything seems happening by itself, there are some laws ruling inside. For example, according to a formula, he can calculate at what time all lights will turn on/off tomorrow, or twenty days later. In his laboratory, he can even duplicate some of the events/results with conforming to the related formulas/laws.
After his observations, if this creature says that it is the law who does everything in the entire building, is this a right claim? If something happens in accordance to a law, to describe how it happened, is it sufficient to prove the law's existence or event's conformance to the law? Can somebody claim that all people are slaves of traffic rules and traffic rules control everybody to obey themselves? Or, does it mean that there is "some kind of" ruler who firstly sets those rules and then, manages things according to that rules?
As all of us know, there is a relation between DNA and beings' attributes. Let's try to describe this relation:
1) Does it mean that it is the DNA who does these changes?
The US has a constitution which is even written in lots of books. Can we say that this "set of laws" manages every event related with it, penalizes who does not obey to it, rewards who obey to it?
2) Or, is it the proteins or mitochondria or ribosomes who "knows to read" DNA and "understands" it and acts in compliance to what is written?
What do you think?
