THE FIRST GENE: A Powerful New Book That Exposes The ILLOGIC of Evolution

Feb. 11, 2012 - PRLog -- THE FIRST GENE
The Birth of Programming,
Messaging and Formal Control.

Dr. David L. Abel is without a doubt one of the greatest scientific thinkers of our day. An experienced researcher in the fields of Molecular Biology and Information Systems and Management, he is the father of the scientific disciplines of ProtoBioCybernetics and ProtoBioSemiotics and the director of the worldwide Gene Emergence Project. Indeed, he is an extraordinary life-origin specialist.

This book makes it clear why he is established as a champion of true science thought and a nightmare to those who would pollute real science thinking with naturalistic agendas.

The introduction alone will no doubt send chills down the spines those who for many years have striven to separate and ignore the relationship between the question of origin and the story telling upon which some so called "science" is based. In the introduction he makes this gripping statement:

"Why would a prebiotic environment have "cared" whether anything functioned? How could inanimate nature have recognized, valued, pursued or worked to preserve the "usefulness" of certain molecules? Undirected evolution has no goal. Natural selection favors only the fittest already-programmed, already-living organisms. Evolution cannot program at the genetic level.
"Survival of the fittest" does not explain the generation of the very first organism, fit or unfit.

Even bacteria depend upon highly integrated circuits and metabolic schemes regulated by DNA instructions and RNA controllers. Genomic prescriptive information is now known to be multidimensional. How did thousands of molecular machines, biochemical pathways and cycles get integrated into such a sustained, cooperative, goaloriented, holistic metabolism? Can physico-chemical propensities and/or mutations program logic gates and integrate circuits? How could chance and/or necessity (the fixed laws of physics) have computed the formal algorithms needed to organize life?

While some scientists might wish to sweep these questions under the rug for being too "metaphysical," they are as foundational to the science of biology as mathematics is to physics. Addressing such questions is the only path to understanding the emergence of the first genetic instructions, metabolic regulation, and life itself."

If the introduction does not sufficiently grip those guilty of polluting science with pseudo-science and out right deception, while at the same time giving hope to those sincere science advocates who have been discouraged by the prominence of just so stories being pushed as science, then Dr. Abel's dedication should serve as both a potent warning of what is to follow as well as a word of encouragement:

"This anthology is dedicated to all those challengers of Kuhnian Paradigm Ruts who risk their careers and reputations raising an eyebrow of skepticism over theories that are pontificated to be fact by a thoroughly entrenched hierarchy and majority, but which are in fact unfalsifiable, completely unsubstantiated empirically, lacking a single prediction fulfillment, and not even logically defensible."

This powerful statement is promptly followed by a Table of Contents that would convince the hostile scientist who does not want to be convinced to read no further and just claim ignorance of the book's existence, while inspiring the true seeker of origins understanding to set aside some quality time to take this journey.

In this book Dr. Abel embarks on an amazing exploration and examination of the question of origins with an insight and frankness that is both refreshing and gratifying and which offers a level of edification far too rarely seen in this field of science.

In the introduction he states:

"Evolution theory is quick to offer an explanatory model for how existing Prescriptive Information (PI) in genomes could have been progressively modified:

Extremely rare beneficial genetic mutations can occur and be preserved through differential survival and reproduction of the fittest phenotypic organisms.

Painfully lacking within evolution theory, however, is an explanation for how any Prescriptive Information (PI) got written or programmed into the genome in the first place. The origin of initial genetic/genomic instructions and epigenomic regulation is typically side-stepped by life-origin science. The whole point of The Origin of Life PrizeTM was to stimulate research specifically into this neglected area. After over a decade of submissions to the Origin of Life PrizeTM, no submission has made it past the first tier of naturalistic scientists screening the submissions and judging their relevance.

The origin of control and regulation in nature is the subject of this anthology. It is also the focus of a new scientific discipline known as ProtoBioCybernetics. "Cybernetics" is the study of various means of steering and organizing controls, not just the effects of mere physicodynamic constraints....

A closely related new field is ProtoBioSemiotics. Controlling messages would have had to be sent, received and understood at their destination in any early protocellular metabolic scheme or system. Constructive controlling messages are meaningful and functional. Such messages steer events toward computational success or algorithmic optimization; they are not just meaningless, redundant, extremely low-informational signals such as pulsars give off.

How did a prebiotic natural environment of mere mass/energy interactions generate meaningful, functional messages? How did chance and necessity prescribe the ability of the receiver to follow arbitrary rules required for decoding? How could the laws of physics and chemistry have enabled molecules to understand linguistic-like symbol systems, and act on such messages within the first protocells? This is the subject of ProtoBioSemiotics.

This anthology specifically addresses questions that for all too long have been swept under the rug of honest scientific investigation. The result has been prolonged entrapment in the greatest Kuhnia paradigm rut in the history of science."

As demonstrated above Dr. Abel seems unafraid to boldly address issues that have been rendered taboo by many in the scientific community.

On page 28 he says... "Science must acknowledge the reality and validity not only of a very indirect, post facto natural selection, but of purposeful selection for potential function as a fundamental category of reality. To disallow purposeful selection renders the practice of mathematics and science impossible."

This is an amazing acknowledgement coming from a prominent member of the science community.

What Dr. David L. Abel and his colleagues have accomplished by producing a book like "The First Gene" is opened the wound of evolution ever wider and more completely exposed the infectious cancer of the science community. While it may take time for the benefit of this work to trickle down to the layman and the general public, it will surely cause massive reactions within the science community. Not only enlightening many scientists who are still hypnotized by the rhetoric of evolution in the science magazines, documentaries and textbooks, but also challenging those who are the gatekeepers of the "Kuhnian Paradigm Ruts".

Pure science research and analysis reporting by competent, reputable scientists has always been the greatest nightmare and the most potent enemy of falsely named science and those who knowingly propagate it.

Dr. David Abel and company have done the science community a great service with this brilliant work. I can only imagine the outcry and praise that is sure to follow.

Will it be the last word on the origins issue? Definitely not, but you can be sure that its conclusions will not be scientifically refuted. Given the complexity and other extensive aspects of what constitutes life, scientists will work in vain to come up with a better explanation for life than GOD.