Originally posted by Artificial Interest:
In your opening sentence you already concede the point that DNA and RNA ?evolved? from the primordial soup. Even if DNA and RNA are ?efficient? means of reproduction, you cannot ?pretend? that they are not reducible just because it suits your argument.
Of course one pretend that! That's how science works in practise. You make reasonable approximations. The makeup of a cell probably resembles the contents of the primordial soup. DNA is the mater molecule mnaking reproduction possible in an efficient way so that the cell can function as a more or less independent organism. The fact that DNA also evolved is not relevant when trying to undrstand evolution of complex organisms.
Originally posted by Artificial Interest:
I don?t really follow your analogy of the economy and the factory, and I can?t see how it helps your argument, as you again conveniently overlook the fact that the factories that help comprise the economy were built by other energies altogether; as was DNA and RNA.
The slope gets slipperier
I'm not sure what you mean. The analogy is crystal clear.
