Category: Comment O’ The Day

Daniel Turner –

Virginia’s gerrymandering was called “fairness”.
Chris Murphy was being “sarcastic”.
Joe Biden has a “stutter”.
Gavin Newsom is suddenly “dyslexic”.
Ilhan Omar made an “accounting error”.
Eric Swalwell was “flirty”.
SPLC was paying “informants”.

All they do is lie.

Kostas Moros –
While I ridicule the antigunners a lot, I don’t think I was ever more disgusted than when I saw how upset they were when Elisjsha Dicken stopped a mass shooting. They could barely hide their rage.
They would have preferred he wasn’t there to stop the killer, because of how that example hurts their narratives. They would have preferred more people murdered, so they could use that to push gun bans.
Everytown being angry about this HK ad, showing totally lawful self-defense and defense of others, is in that same vein.
The ad is actually extremely healthy in its message, saying that its subject could only stop a mass shooting because he chose a good gun (their gun of course, it is still an ad), got training, and stored it responsibly in a safe at home. It even shows him not shooting it very well at first, but continuing to train until he got better. And it’s an ad for a small handgun, not a scary “assault weapon.”
It’s literally the least controversial modern gun ad I’ve seen. So what the hell is Everytown’s problem? Oh right, they want to ban all guns, so NO gun advertising is ever acceptable.
By the way, ads like this do a very good thing. They send a message to would-be mass shooters that they might get smoked quickly, and their fame-seeking may thus end in humiliation. That’s a deterrent to mass shootings. So it’s a shame more people don’t see them given gun ads don’t play on TV and such.

To the Mayor of Chicago;
The US has been engaged in active military operations against Iran for 38 days.
13 Americans have died.
During that same period, over 40 Americans have died by homicide in Chicago.
Media silence….
So spare me your fake moral outrage!

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The Article is very long and technically involved. I still strongly suggest you “Read The Whole Thing™” as it gives a basis for one of the main problems with Darwinian evolution  i.e. “Irreducible Complexity”

Comment O’ The Day
Davide “Tanner” Taini
So the genetic code has a bootstrap problem identical to compiler theory. The aaRS enzymes are the compiler that translates DNA into proteins, but they’re themselves proteins, compiled from DNA by the very system they implement. Dennis Ritchie solved the C compiler bootstrap by sitting down and hand-writing the first version in assembly on a PDP-11. Someone had to intervene from outside the system to start the loop.

Except in biology, that someone also had to design the hardware, the instruction set, the memory architecture, the power supply, the chassis, and make sure the whole thing was self-hosting from the first clock cycle. Ritchie only had to write the compiler. God apparently handled the full stack, and shipped it without a single patch note!

BLUF
the code and the machinery that reads it had to arrive simultaneously and completely. The literature dances around this without landing on it.

So the short answer to your question is: the literature confirms the co-organization of code and decoder machinery, names it as symbolic rather than chemical, and identifies the second base as its organizational anchor — but does not draw the conclusion that this makes unguided origin not just improbable but logically incoherent.

The DNA Code was Designed; the Decoder is the Code
“The code and its decoder had to arrive simultaneously and completely functional.”

First a synopsis, then the Claude Sonnet conversation that got us here. This is tentative.

The standard codon wheel, RNA version. The radial symmetry graphic of the 4³ codon table requested below.

Code and Decoder as a Single System

The standard codon wheel — the diagram found in every genetics textbook — organizes the code around the first base. In that orientation, the second-base symmetry TES identifies is effectively invisible. It has been hiding in plain sight for seventy years simply because the field adopted the wrong organizing axis early and never changed it.

When the charts are examined directly, the second-base blocks map cleanly onto amino acid physicochemical properties: the C block contains the smallest, simplest amino acids; the T block is dominated by hydrophobics; the A block handles the polar and charged amino acids. This is not incidental. Peer-reviewed work by Carter and Wolfenden confirms that the acceptor stem of tRNA independently encodes amino acid size, while the anticodon encodes polarity — the same two properties that track with the nucleon count progression that The Ethical Skeptic (TES) identifies. Carter explicitly describes the result as “a symbolic mapping,” comparing it to Morse code. The second base, he notes, is the most organizationally conservative position in the entire code.

What the literature does not do is follow this to its logical conclusion. Carter frames the self-referential relationship between code and decoding machinery as a “reflexivity” that enabled evolution. What it actually describes is a closed loop with no entry point for an unguided process: the aaRS enzymes that implement the code are proteins, produced by reading DNA through the code that those same enzymes implement. The code and its decoder had to arrive simultaneously and completely functional. Neither has any meaning without the other.

This is not merely improbable. It is logically incoherent as an unguided event.

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