DNA as Seen Through the Eyes of a Computer Programmer

Yes, DNA dies look like "Biological Software", and certainly has been well designed.

The so-called "useless or redundant" bits are there for reasons we presently do not know, and may never come to understand.

Self-repairing, damaged only by the occasional cosmic ray as it passes through the earth, chemicals like solvents or THC's etc, it automatically acts faster than a supercomputer, when all the variables are taken into account.

Of course we share so much DNA with monkeys, jellyfish, whales, polar bears, ants, trees etc. - and we have to.

If you are designing a complete working ecosystem, where things must get recycled, rather than build up into toxic waste, the basis building bricks must have a great deal in common - with very fine DNA details separating species.

I understand enough about DNA to know the puzzle, like so many left by our Creator to us, shall never be fully understood while we are "those who are alive and remain" on Planet Earth.....

Kind Regards, as always....

This is like the misconception that we use only ten percent of our brains.

DNA is a molecule that will do certain things when placed in a particular enviroment. If you alter it slightly, it should still do those things, but when altered enough or at a critical point then the function can change, thus evolution occurs.

The point is that we have to stop this analogy that DNA is some sort of a program. Yes it's true that DNA holds all the information necessary for an animal or plant in the same way that a water molecule holds all the information for all the different phases of ice it can form at different temperatures and pressures. Yet no one would dream of saying that the programing of ice exists in the water molecule even though its the same exact mechanisms at work.