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DNA consists of coded “messages” that are copied by “messenger RNA.”  The copy is taken to a processing plant called a ribosome, which then “translates” the message into a functional three-dimensional part or genetic word called a protein. Thus, like the recipes in cook books, sequences of nucleotide bases in DNA carry meaning that is independent of the significance of each of the symbols that make the “message.”  They not only look like specifications, they function as specifications.

DNA consists of coded “messages” that are copied by “messenger RNA.”  The copy is taken to a processing plant called a ribosome, which then “translates” the message into a functional three-dimensional part or genetic word called a protein. Thus, like the recipes in cook books, sequences of nucleotide bases in DNA carry meaning that is independent of the significance of each of the symbols that make the “message.”  They not only look like specifications, they function as specifications.

=====“Smoking Guns” of intelligence=====

=====“[[Smoking gun (scientific discourse)|Smoking Guns]]” of intelligence=====

Albert Harrison, an expert on detecting design from aliens identified what he believed would amount to a smoking gun that would clearly implicate the existence of alien intelligence.  If we could find a symbol sequence that did any of the following we could be certain that it was generated by a mind for a purpose:

Albert Harrison, an expert on detecting design from aliens identified what he believed would amount to a smoking gun that would clearly implicate the existence of alien intelligence.  If we could find a symbol sequence that did any of the following we could be certain that it was generated by a mind for a purpose: