Kerstmis en God!
Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 5:43 pm
Het is weer bijna Kerstmis, Jezus 2007ste verjaardag komt eraan. En iedereen leeft daar weer naartoe...
Bij deze vrede aan alle mensen in deze wereld die in God geloven(en van goede wil zijn, zich bijvoorbeeld niet opblazen), zij die niet in God geloven doen weten dat het geen zin heeft dat te zeggen.
Bio-informaticussen bestaat toch ook ergens heb ik horen zeggen, en nog voor de uitvinding van het schrift ondertussen al zo'n 8000 jaar geleden. Werdt er al informatie neergeschreven en bewaart voor het nageslacht. Namelijk ons genetisch materiaal.
Degene die dat heeft neergeschreven, volgens sommige God, volgens andere het toeval en deed de autocorrectie van de natuur de rest. Nu is ons DNA ontcijferd, en dit is wat de geleerden in de VS hebben gevonden (beknopt weergegeven): Het goddelijke programma van God:
Computer source code for DNA
For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that
very little of an organism's DNA seems to serve any useful function. I have
solved the mystery.
The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs any
useful function is that the rest of it is comments.
Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as
follows:
===
/* HUMAN_DNA.H
*
* Human Genome
* Version 2.1
*
* (C) God
*/
/* Revision history:
*
* 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.
* 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.
* 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added penis code to male version. A bit messy --
* will require a rewrite later on to make it neater.
* 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code from
* elephant-dna.c
* 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.
* 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
* 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
* 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin colour made
* darker to match my own image.
* 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom' teeth.
* Must remember to make mouth bigger to compensate.
* 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.
* 5533-02-12 17:09 2.0 Added gay option, triggered by high population
* density, to try and slow the overpopulation problem
* 6004-11-04 16:11 2.1 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in centre of
* CD.
*/
/* Standard definitions
*/
#define SEX male
#define HEIGHT 1.84
#define MASS 68
#define RACE caucasian
/* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
*
* Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
* inheritance features.
*/
#include "mother.h"
#include "father.h"
#ifndef FATHER
warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")
#include "bastard.h"
#endif
/* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
*/
#include (sex.h)
/* Kludged code -- I'll re-design this lot and re-write it as a proper
* library sometime soon.
*/
struct genitals
{
#ifdef MALE
Penis *jt;
#endif
/* G_spot *g; Removed for debugging purposes */
#ifdef FEMALE
Vagina *p;
#endif
}
/* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.
* Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
*/
DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);
/* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
*
* Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the organism
* to display at birth.
*
* Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
*/
Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
===
..and so on.
[ Note that God uses three-space tabs ]
So is it any wonder that, as one philosopher put it, God is in the details?
Zal er ooit een dag aanbreken dat Informatici voor God gaan spelen?
En zo ja, wat zullen ze programmeren?
Bij deze vrede aan alle mensen in deze wereld die in God geloven(en van goede wil zijn, zich bijvoorbeeld niet opblazen), zij die niet in God geloven doen weten dat het geen zin heeft dat te zeggen.
Bio-informaticussen bestaat toch ook ergens heb ik horen zeggen, en nog voor de uitvinding van het schrift ondertussen al zo'n 8000 jaar geleden. Werdt er al informatie neergeschreven en bewaart voor het nageslacht. Namelijk ons genetisch materiaal.
Degene die dat heeft neergeschreven, volgens sommige God, volgens andere het toeval en deed de autocorrectie van de natuur de rest. Nu is ons DNA ontcijferd, en dit is wat de geleerden in de VS hebben gevonden (beknopt weergegeven): Het goddelijke programma van God:
Computer source code for DNA
For many years molecular biologists have been mystified by the fact that
very little of an organism's DNA seems to serve any useful function. I have
solved the mystery.
The reason why only 30% of human DNA performs any
useful function is that the rest of it is comments.
Once we decode a typical human genome, we see that the contents begin as
follows:
===
/* HUMAN_DNA.H
*
* Human Genome
* Version 2.1
*
* (C) God
*/
/* Revision history:
*
* 0000-00-01 00:00 1.0 Adam.
* 0000-00-02 10:00 1.1 Eve.
* 0000-00-03 02:11 1.2 Added penis code to male version. A bit messy --
* will require a rewrite later on to make it neater.
* 0017-03-12 03:14 1.3 Added extra sex drive to male.h; took code from
* elephant-dna.c
* 0145-10-03 16:33 1.4 Removed tail.
* 1115-00-31 17:20 1.5 Shortened forearms, expanded brain case.
* 2091-08-20 13:56 1.6 Opposable thumbs added to hand() routine.
* 2501-04-09 14:04 1.7 Minor cosmetic improvements -- skin colour made
* darker to match my own image.
* 2909-07-12 02:21 1.8 Dentition inadequate; added extra 'wisdom' teeth.
* Must remember to make mouth bigger to compensate.
* 4501-12-31 14:18 1.9 Increase average height.
* 5533-02-12 17:09 2.0 Added gay option, triggered by high population
* density, to try and slow the overpopulation problem
* 6004-11-04 16:11 2.1 Made forefinger narrower to fit hole in centre of
* CD.
*/
/* Standard definitions
*/
#define SEX male
#define HEIGHT 1.84
#define MASS 68
#define RACE caucasian
/* Include inherited traits from parent DNA files.
*
* Files must be pre-processed with MENDEL program to provide proper
* inheritance features.
*/
#include "mother.h"
#include "father.h"
#ifndef FATHER
warn("Father unknown -- guessing\n")
#include "bastard.h"
#endif
/* Set up sex-specific functions and variables
*/
#include (sex.h)
/* Kludged code -- I'll re-design this lot and re-write it as a proper
* library sometime soon.
*/
struct genitals
{
#ifdef MALE
Penis *jt;
#endif
/* G_spot *g; Removed for debugging purposes */
#ifdef FEMALE
Vagina *p;
#endif
}
/* Initialization bootstrap routine -- called before DNA duplication.
* Allocates buffers and sets up protein file pointers
*/
DNA *zygote_initialize(Sperm *, Ovum *);
/* MAIN INITIALIZATION CODE
*
* Returns structures containing pre-processed phenotypes for the organism
* to display at birth.
*
* Will be improved later to make output less ugly.
*/
Characteristic *lookup_phenotype(Identifier *i);
===
..and so on.
[ Note that God uses three-space tabs ]
So is it any wonder that, as one philosopher put it, God is in the details?
Zal er ooit een dag aanbreken dat Informatici voor God gaan spelen?
En zo ja, wat zullen ze programmeren?
