This Is a Happy Accident???!!

5/24/2017

How NUTS (or dishonest) must a "scientist" be to claim this is a happy accident???!!

Look, I’m a scientist. I know LOTS of scientists. And, honestly, I don’t know of a single intelligent person (scientist or otherwise) who would ignore such evidence as this on any OTHER subject with resistance. Yes, we ARE fearfully and wonderfully MADE - by a Creator, to WHOM we will give an account for our days!

The DNA packaging system alone is an extraordinary technical feat. If the nucleus of a human cell were a hollow sphere the size of a tennis ball, the DNA of the genome would be a thin thread some 24 miles long. The thread must be packed into the sphere with no breakages, and in such a way that any region of it can be found immediately.

The heart of the packaging system is a set of special purpose proteins known as histones. Eight histones lock together to form a miniature spool known as a nucleosome. The DNA twists almost twice round each nucleosome, with short spaces in between. Some 30 million nucleosomes are required to package all the DNA of ordinary cells.

For years, biologists assumed that the histones in their nucleosome spools provided a passive framework for the DNA. But, over the last decade, it has become increasingly clear that this is not the case. The histone tails that jut out from the nucleosomes provide a way of marking up the genetic script. Although one kind of mark is attached directly to the bases in the DNA, more than a hundred others are fixed onto specific sites on the histones’ tails. When the DNA has to replicate, for cell division, the direct marks pass only to the two parent strands and all the nucleosomes are disassembled, yet the cell has ingenious methods for reconstituting the same marks on the two daughter genomes. The marks are called epigenetic, and the whole system the epigenome, because they are inherited across cell division despite not being encoded in the DNA.