Although, as we have seen, Darwin’s theory totally fails to satisfy the practical requirements of the scientific method on two counts out of two, using tests of his own devising, more and more biologists and mathematicians are beginning to fail it for a far more basic reason – the fact that it simply cannot provide a credible explanation for the recently uncovered intricacies of organisms that evolutionist Gordon Rattray Taylor described as “complexity within complexity”— some of which we have already touched on, in particular the mechanics of DNA and the logistics of the mind-boggling micro chemical factory we call a living cell.

Jumping Genes
In “The Science of Life”, Anthony Barnett, retired professor of zoology at the “Australian National University” and an evident evolutionist, comments that nothing can be “taken for granted” in biology, not even the so-called “fundamentals”. He illustrates his point with the discovery by Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock that certain genes in maize chromosomes, now called “transposons”, are able to detach themselves and actually move down the corridor, so to speak, to totally different locations, thereby generating mutations when the DNA is replicated later on. [Ed: They probably wanted a chat, G-Man. It gets boring stuck in the same spot on a chromosome all day.]

These transposons are part of the so-called “junk dna” for which scientists previously saw no possible use. Because McClintock’s “wild suggestions” contradicted the fundamental principles of genetics as then understood, they were “brushed aside”, says Barnett, by an incredulous scientific fraternity for some 40 years, in much the same way Lamarck’s suggestions had been earlier.

[Ed: It did not help McClintock’s case, G-Man, that she was once described as being “sharp tongued” and “indifferent to petty rules”—as apparently was Galileo, who sealed his own fate in his dealings with the Roman Catholic Church centuries earlier by his abrasive manner.]

These so-called “jumping genes” have since been discovered in many kinds of organisms – such as bacteria, yeasts, insects and mammals. Notice that the mutations generated by the transposons are meaningful modifications, not the kind of accidental and usually damaging and disabling “DNA copying error” stuff beloved of Richard Dawkins et al.

Astonishingly, is had been found that transposons can even move completely out of the sex cells of a fruit fly, for example, and be picked up by parasitic mites which may then transfer them to a different fruit fly. [Ed: Are you suggesting, G-Man, that “nature” was carrying out genetic engineering programs of its own long before scientists ever knew such a thing was possible? ]

Transposons illustrate one aspect of the incredible complex mechanisms and sophisticated “intelligent design” systems originally engineered into organisms – enabling the Genesis kinds to spread, adapt as necessary and populate the ecological holes and corners of the world.

Some Genes Are More Equal than Others
Another incredible feature of cells is the existence of “Master Control genes” whose function is to control other “slave” or junior genes. Since every cell in an organism contains the genetic code for the whole organism and the potential to multiply and forms specialist cells for muscle, bone, eyes, hearts, etc., it is very important that genes be strictly controlled and “told” when to operate and when not to.

Indeed, by interfering in these processes, at the level of a boy poking a stick in the wheel of a bicycle and watching his friend shoot over the handlebars, kindly men in white coats have induced fruit flies to grow extra eyes and legs on the wrong parts of their bodies.

Astonished by this information, I posed the following question to a geneticist over the internet:

Q: “How does a “master controller gene” which is apparently located at a fixed
point a chromosome switch other genes on and off when they are at different
physical locations remote from it?”

I received the following answer:

A: “This is a great question. The way a master controller gene works is that
the gene codes for a protein that can turn on other genes. The information
from the gene DNA is copied into RNA. The RNA then heads out of the
nucleus where it is translated into a protein. The protein then goes back
into the nucleus and, because of the way it is built, it looks the DNA over
for certain strings of bases. “ [Ed: Cue some canned applause, p-lease!]

What I find as astonishing as the mechanics of the cell is the thinking of the geneticist in blithely believing that the processes he describes so matter of factly could ever have been created by the accumulation of accidental DNA copying errors.

Even a book on genetics already decades out of date provides the following amazing facts about mutational mechanisms:

1) a piece of a chromosome may be deleted,

2) a part may be duplicated at another location,

3) two sections may change places, “translocation”,

4) a section may be removed, turned end to end, then re-inserted, “inversion”,

5) a “repair mechanism” moves along and checks that the DNA has been correctly copied when a cell divides, and

6) the mutations described here may later be spontaneously reversed, perhaps several generations later.

[Ed: Don’t care what you say, G-Man, I’m running that two-hour standing ovation tape again.]

Does DNA Talk to Itself?
In “Natural Creation or Natural Selection?”, mystical scientific thinker John Davidson describes the research of a Fritz-Albert Popp who found that DNA molecules inside living materials are optically active, exchanging photons of energy internally and with other DNA molecules as well as neighbouring cells. “What is going on?” asks Davidson? Could it be that the molecules are somehow “communicating” necessary information, after the manner of a computer, perhaps to help coordinate their actions in the formation of organ and limb shapes and structures?

Did the Jews Invent DNA?
Ancient Hebrew text, we are told, was composed only of consonants, with suitable vowels being inserted where necessary by the reader in order to make sense. The amazing result, in some inspired sections of the Old Testament, such as the writings of Solomon, was that alternative and complementary messages could sometimes be generated by the insertion of different vowels into the same string of consonants. As a result, English translators of the Bible often have to decide which possibility to choose, and which to omit or perhaps offer as footnotes or “marginal” reading. [Ed: That paragraph heading is a bit silly, G-Man!]

In similar fashion, we are told, the strings of A, C, T and G bases that make u p DNA molecules can be “read” by the master controllers starting at different points in order to manufacture different forms of amino acid.

We are assured by Steven Rose that fascinating facts of the kind reported here constitute just “an extremely superficial and brief look” at some of the discoveries of genetic research.

Paranormal Pigeons and the Holy Grail
If evolution cannot cope with the physical complexity of even the “simplest” of organisms, how can it begin to explain the non-physical aspects of life, such as emotion, intellect, and instinct. – something not even Darwin deigned to do?

A recent TV documentary described the intense competition between scientists in England, German and Spain to be the first to discover the “Holy Grail of Navigation” – i.e. finding the true explanation of how homing pigeons navigate, and are able to find their way home from afar as if drawn by invisible elastic bands.

The English group claims that the birds rely to a large extent on visual clues, so that in making their way home they tend to follow landmarks with which they are already familiar, such as roads and railway lines. This was demonstrated by tracking the birds using miniature satellite navigation systems – and using a computer to superimpose the flight paths taken over several trips to see how well they coincided.

However, when the birds’ eyes were fitted with heavily frosted contact lenses, they could still find their way about locally, but with more difficulty and more indirectly.

In another experiment the birds were kept in closed cages where electric lights could be used to simulate and manipulate artificial sunrise and sunset times. Releasing the pigeons from a cage where they thought it was one time of day, out into sunlight that suggested that it was a very different time, also caused the pigeons some confusion and difficulty in sorting out the way home – suggesting that their navigations system also relies in some way on the hourly position of sun.

The German groups are convinced that the pigeons use mysterious magnetic organisms in their heads and beaks in order to navigate by means of the earth’s magnetic lines of force, which run from south to north pole. [Ed: Stop the Press, G-Man! The German group has just announced the discovery of a three-dimensional neural network located in the lining of the pigeon’s upper beak which contains an array of microscopic magnetite particles which enables them to monitor and measure the strength and direction of the earth’s magnetic field as they fly. They now suspect that many other birds possess a similar mechanism. -- Pow! Splat! Krunch! Explain that as an accident of evolution, Dr. Dawkins!]

The reality may well be that these astonishing creatures have been engineered with a variety of complementary systems. For centuries, for example, many pigeon fanciers have claimed that the birds make their way home using their sense of smell, which is why some owners would accumulate massive heaps of droppings to assist them in that task. Astonishingly, the Italian group of scientists claim that this is in fact how the birds do navigate -- not that they can smell their home from miles away, but that they are able to piece together an olfactory map of the locality in which they live, extending even over many miles. The scientists demonstrated that if Novocaine is administered to paralyse the birds’ sense of smell, they are unable to navigate properly.

Evolutionist Rupert Sheldrake, who is one of the English scientists investigating the phenomenon, is of the opinion that the invisible and intangible “morphic field”, or the learning process he calls “morphic resonance” where by the learnings of one generation are somehow inherited by the next, is at the bottom of the mystery. [Ed: And how does Sheldrake think evolution created this morphic field then, G-Man?]