One doesn't have to a creationist or an ID believer to suspect that we are only beginning to unravel just how it is that DNA does what it does.
We know that sequences of genomes contain coded instructions for assembling proteins, but that's just an inventory of materials, not the blue prints and building directions and construction schedules for the entire edifice. We also know that despite the duplications and (as the article points out) ,the variations in the duplications, that somehow, DNA codes for macro structural and physiological differences in secondary and tertiary (and higher order) codes that we do not understand at all. How does genetic material somehow convert protein formulae into the shape of my nose, just like my grandfather's, or the habit we share of chewing our tongues when we are concentrating?
Consider how often in birth defects and anomalies such as conjoined twins, totally unexpected anatomical variations result which somehow still manage to be viable, as if auxiliary control and repair mechanisms kick in even when major errors in transcription occur. We also carry in our genetic material an evolutionary record of all our ancestors, all the way back. There are artifacts of earlier versions of ourselves there, as there are pieces of relict code in the Windows operating system.
I suspect DNA is more than just a data storage or transcription device, I suspect it is capable of doing some processing, too.
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