Reply #6: Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. [View All]

[saras]

The entire concept "destiny" is best left to religion. It has no place in science.

On the other hand, if DNA really is self-modifying (i.e. Lysenko's concept was right and Darwin's wrong, even though Darwin got the details right and Lysenko failed miserably there) - then what I want to know is whether it is powerful enough to be Turing-machine equivalent.

Another thought - this discovery invalidates (as if it needed ANOTHER invalidation) the idea that genes only do one thing, and the corollary that we can therefore go about snipping them out and "fixing" them without fear of unintended consequences.