Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id KAA14680 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:39:43 +0100 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 10:31:28 +0100 To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: Memetic Paradigms Message-ID: <20010401103128.C973@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <3AC48229.9444.16BB2D@localhost>; <20010331143959.C478@reborntechnology.co.uk> <3AC602EF.1837.3B4204@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <3AC602EF.1837.3B4204@localhost>; from joedees@bellsouth.net on Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:16:47PM -0600 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 04:16:47PM -0600, joedees@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Obviously, a gene for brown eyes cannot manifest in the absence
> of a head growing, but it does not matter how many legs one has
> (or have you stared in the Buddha-nature eyes of a dog lately?).
> We can indeed tell what the codon boundaries of particular genes
> are, and can isolate and correlate them in the laboratory; that's
> what the Human Genome Project has been doing for the last
> decade. Have you kept up with ANYTHING scientific in the last 20
> years, or do you restrict yourself to eastern religion and empty
> rhetoric?
Ignoring your rhetoric, it's now clear that by "isolable atom" you don't
mean genes can survive on their own. Despite what you might think,
that was *not* clear previously. (And the sheer silliness of the idea
is not good enough reason to rule it out as something you might say.)
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