Evolution doesn't explain the grammar of the genetic code

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Contents 1 Claim 2 Source 3 Responses 4 Fallacies contained in this claim 5 External Links 6 Related claims 7 Acknowledgments

Claim

Evolution doesn't explain the grammar of the genetic code.

Source

• Anon, 1985. Life--How Did It Get Here? By Evolution or By Creation? Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc., p. 24

Responses

1. This is akin to stating that "X doesn't explain why Bob picked door number 5, out of 20 possible doors". This argument could be invoked regardless of what door Bob picked, and thus regardless of what "grammar" might be inherent in the genetic code. It is the fact that it has grammar at all that is the ultimate focus of the explanatory power of Darwinism.
2. The observable fact of historical evolution does not depend on an explanation of its mechanisms.
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Fallacies contained in this claim

• Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
• Red Herring

External Links

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Related claims

• Evolution doesn't explain how a bauplan is written in the genes
• Genetic code is too complex to have come to be in one step
• DNA needs proteins to form; Proteins need DNA

Acknowledgments