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NOTES ON COMMONALITY OF DNA CODE:

1) IN THE BOOK; "NATURE'S DESTINY", THE AUTHOR DISCUSSES THAT IN THEORY THERE COULD HAVE BEEN A HELICAL DNA CODE WITH MORE OR LESS THAN 4 BASE PAIRS.

2) SINCE NO ONE HAS FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE 4 BASE CODE IN THE FOSSIL RECORD, IT IS POSSIBLE THAT AT LEAST FOR A SHORT TIME,  A 2 OR 6 BASE CODE ALSO EXISTED BUT WHICH AS THE REFERENCED BOOK POINTS OUT,  WOULD LEAD TO LESS EFFICIENT LIFE. 

3) THE FOUR BASES OF THE DNA CODE NOW USED BY ALL OF LIFE IN THE DNA HELIX COIL TURN DETERMINES THE SUPERCOILING (VITAL TO COMPLEX LIFE) POSSIBILITIES.  FROM THIS STANDPOINT ALSO, DARWINIAN PRINCIPLES (WORKING ONLY AT THE MICRO LEVEL) WOULD ELIMINATE ALL OTHER "CODE" BASED LIFE IF IT EVER AROSE.

4) THERE IS VERY LITTLE IF ANY EVIDENCE OF PROTO LIFE AND CERTAINLY NONE NOW KNOWN OF A DIFFERENT CODE (MITOCHONDRIA USE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT CODE WHICH IS ANOTHER PROBLEM FOR DARWINISTS)   THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF ANY LIFE FORM OR EVEN DNA EXISTING WITHOUT COMPLEX DECODER AND RECORDER MOLECULAR MACHINES EXISTING CONCURRENTLY WITH DNA.

5) THERE IS NO EVIDENCE AS TO HOW THE BASE 4 DNA CODE AROSE, NOR HOW THE DECODING (MULTIPLE MOLECULAR MACHINES) AROSE (THIS IS ALSO A CHICKEN AND EGG PROBLEM AT THE LOWEST AND MOST MEANINGFUL LEVEL), NOR ANY THEORETICAL EXPLANATION AS TO HOW A CODE COULD ARISE WITHOUT CODE READERS COMING TO EXIST AT THE SAME TIME, NOR HOW MOLECULAR MACHINES WOULD COME TO ARISE WHICH "KNEW" HOW TO READ THE CODE.

6) IF OTHER CODES ARE LESS EFFICIENT AND SURVIVABLE AND IF THE 4 BASE CODE EFFICIENCY IS DETERMINED BY THE BASIC LAWS OF PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY, THEN II IT SURPRISING THAT ONLY A BASE FOUR CODE EXISTS?  IF THERE WERE ANY TYPE OF SURVIVAL MECHANISM OPERATING (AGAIN UNKNOWN TO SCIENCE) TIME WOULD SELECT THE MOST SURVIVABLE CODE VIA ESSENTIALLY THE SAME MECHANISM AS DARWINIAN MICRO EVOLUTION.

7) IF 6) IS TRUE, THEN COMMON 4 BASE DNA CODE DOES NOT PROVE COMMON ANCESTRY BUT ONLY COMMON LAWS OF PHYSICS AT WORK AND THE ONLY LIFE THAT WOULD SURVIVE THE COMPETITION OF DNA CODES WOULD BE THE 4 BASE PAIR CODE.  IF THIS HAPPENS, ALL LIFE WOULD HAVE A COMMON CODE WITHOUT NECESSARILY ANY ANCESTRAL RELATIONSHIPS.  (ECOLOGY AND FOOD CHAINS WOULD ALSO FAVOR A SINGLE COMMON SET OF AMINO ACIDS AND COMMON PROTEINS AND COMMON CODE WITHOUT REQUIRING ANCESTRAL RELATIONSHIPS.)

8) If "design" is part of the true story, a common optimum DNA code would be expected (possibly with small variations in particular situations.)

9) DNA CODE COMMONALITY DOES NOT PROVE COMMON ANCESTRY.

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