A Living Earth

Hi Mike,Have you ever camped at Lake Siskayou's campground up at Shasta? We've camped there many times and I have photo's of our daughter's first steps with the lake and Mt. Shasta in the background.Anyway, you said in the post that I'm replying to that the majority of the human DNA is Junk variety. I'm not a biologist and don't even pretend to understand much of what you are speaking about, but only because I'm unfamiliar with the terminology. What percentage of the DNA in humans would you say is actually functional and nessessary to copy a human being?Are you also saying that as the "Alpha Being" instruction code was copied and then those copies were subjected to the electrical forces of nature and became modified, as the organisms grew to greater and greater complexity or at least larger in size, the copying mechanism did not delete out the undeed lines of instruction code but just left them there and added new as the envoirment drove the evolution?Finally, if I'm following you, shouldn't the human DNA be a type of "Tree Ring Code" of the past 2-3 billion years of evolution just by looking at the vast majority of unused code left over on our DNA?A funny story - The first time we camped at Shasta I couldn't find a forcast for the tempertures there so I looked at the map and seen how close Redding was so I used that forcast. High of 85 during the day and lows of 65 at night. This the the first week of June as we came down from Olympia for our first camping trip of the season. What I failed to realize was the distance was only 24 miles but the altitude difference was 5000 feet. We frooze our butts off that night and the rest of the trip we slept in the car with the engine running!