DNA & cosmic fine-tuning: The universe as Plato's intelligible Living Creature

This is the nice allegory first used by the philosopher John Leslie to describe the situation that scientists have found in the universe after discovering that many features of our cosmos are astoundingly fine-tuned to our existence, or to the emergence and evolution of life, more generally.

Indeed, if the physical features that make up the universe had been drawn at random, the probability that they would have values allowing for life and intelligence to appear (at some point in time and space) would be ridiculously small, one in billions of billions of billions.

Many thinkers have recognised this discovery as an extremely important one, probably the most significant one at least since the discovery of the expansion of the universe.

And the evidence for such “fine-tuning” of the universe has been accumulating for more than a century now. But the “anthropic” principle (“anthropos” meaning “human” in Greek), declaring the universe to be particularly fit for life and for humans has been around for some time.

Is this new or particularly important? Well, after the Copernican revolution, which removed Earth and humans from the central position in the universe, it came as a shock to the western elites to realise that the universe, instead of being completely oblivious to humans, was in fact particularly suited for life, consciousness, and intelligence.

Most importantly, it was no longer the old fitness argument, stating that the temperature, pressure, gravity and environment of the Earth was “just right” for our existence and activity; it was now a question of the very foundations of the universe, the parameters and physical laws upon which everything was built.

In short, if the characteristics of the physical universe (and by physical, one includes the chemical, the biological, the geological) had been just a little different from their actual values, not only would we not be here to wonder about them, in most cases the universe itself would not have developed its various forms, structures such as galaxies, stars and planets would not have formed, and objects and organisms would mostly not have come into existence.

40 Percent of Our Political Views Have a Genetic Component

All of this leaves open the question: Which genes help create which political attitudes? Right now, we don’t know. To discover the links will require lengthy studies of the DNA of people with different political views. Scientists are having a hard time locating the specific genes that cause diseases; it will probably be much harder to find the complex array of genes that affects politics. ... Genes shape, to varying degrees, almost every aspect of human behavior. The struggle by some activists to deny or downplay that fact is worrisome. The anti-gene claim is ultimately an ill-starred effort to preserve the myth that, since the environment can explain everything, political causes that attempt to alter the environment can bring about whatever their leaders desire.

Once the Orwellian doublethink is dispensed with, the following facts become self-evident:

• "Diversity" = replace White people with non-white people
• "Multiculturalism" = a tacit admission that culture is biologically associated with race
• "Immigration" = White genocide
• "Globalization" = the annihilation of human diversity
• "Democracy" = a ruse by which centralized tyranny seeks to obliterate ALL homogeneous, opposing centers of resistance
• "Human rights" = a one-way road on which non-whites are privileged and empowered, while simultaneously Whites are not so much as permitted to assert their own existence
• "Justice" = anything that furthers the vested interests of hyper-organized, moneyed elites
• "Freedom" = a Panopticon-esque, webbed framework of thought-control and coercion
• "Economy" = post-modern serfs toiling on behalf of their Judeo-plutocratic puppet masters
• "Peace" = the cause used purportedly by those who wage perpetual war
• "Independence" = the wholesale bondage and enslavement of ALL the Peoples and nations of mankind to the international Judeo-plutocracy
• "Civil rights" = the name of the excuse given for destroying White Civilization and for waging a campaign of genocide against European Descended People
• "Tolerance" = celebrating the demise of one's own culture, nation, and ethny

Bonus section: Cognitive dissonance in the news:

1. Here: President Shimon Peres told the Washington Post Saturday he believed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "came from the right, but he's no longer a rightist".
2. Here: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, in an interview published Saturday, Palestinians needed to recognize Israel as a Jewish state in order to resolve their conflict. ... "Jews come here and Palestinians will go there. So choose. That's the basis of a solution," the Israeli prime minister said.

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3-D Structure of Human Genome: Fractal Globule Architecture Packs Two Meters of DNA Into Each Cell:

The researchers report two striking findings. First, the human genome is organized into two separate compartments, keeping active genes separate and accessible while sequestering unused DNA in a denser storage compartment. Chromosomes snake in and out of the two compartments repeatedly as their DNA alternates between active, gene-rich and inactive, gene-poor stretches.

"Cells cleverly separate the most active genes into their own special neighborhood, to make it easier for proteins and other regulators to reach them," says Job Dekker, associate professor of biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at UMass Medical School and a senior author of the Science paper.

Second, at a finer scale, the genome adopts an unusual organization known in mathematics as a "fractal." The specific architecture the scientists found, called a "fractal globule," enables the cell to pack DNA incredibly tightly -- the information density in the nucleus is trillions of times higher than on a computer chip -- while avoiding the knots and tangles that might interfere with the cell's ability to read its own genome. Moreover, the DNA can easily unfold and refold during gene activation, gene repression, and cell replication.

"Nature's devised a stunningly elegant solution to storing information -- a super-dense, knot-free structure," says senior author Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute, who is also professor of biology at MIT, and professor of systems biology at Harvard Medical School.

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Evolutionists will tell you that the Big Bang was a random expansion of space-time matter-energy. Transudationists maintain that the Big Bang was an ordered expansion of space-time matter-energy -- and the Big Bang was therefore in actuality a "Big Seed."

Bomb or seed?

Facts are stubborn things.

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chemical signatures in light waves