If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.

I think she [Rosalind Franklin] was a good experimentalist but certainly not of the first rank. She was simply not in the same class as Eigen or Bragg or Pauling, nor was she as good as Dorothy Hodgkin. She did not even select DNA to study. It was given to her. Her theoretical crystallography was very average.

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.

God is a hacker, not an engineer

My own prejudices are exactly the opposite of the functionalists': "If you want to understand function, study structure".

If revealed religions have revealed anything it is that they are usually wrong.