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My father met several times Schockley in the 50-1960 He was a semi conductor engineer at Thomson-CSF in France (now ST Microelectronics). He made the first french diodes and transistors in the late 1950 in Grenoble. Thomson-CSF had a patent agreement with Bell Labs to make transistors. Part of the agreement was an annual consulting session with Schockley to exchange about manufacturing diodes and transistors. My father never spoke about Schockley's grumpiness.

Voltaire : The universe embarrasses me, and I cannot dream that this watch exists and has no watchmaker.

And Voltaire did not know about all the maths behind matter and universe, the computer science behind DNA, the complexity of biochemistry...

To all the engineers here : work about causality, and the power of randmoness, be curious, do not take for granted evolution through randmoness, it makes no sense especially for an engineer who knows how codes work.

The idea must precede the code, and the right code can act upon the matter. The random code without idea has absolutely no chance to do anything valuable.

Read Prof. Michael Behe, Prof M. Denton, Prof. J. Tour, PhD D. Axe and so many.

These are not random mutations but adaptation features. In the E. Coli LTEE (Long Time Experiment) still ongoing, 65 000 generations since 1988 have shown little adaptations (like epigenetics) but they are still E. Coli, not another bacteria, nor another species.

There is no alternative scientific explanation, there is a demonstrated proof that part of the synthetic theory of evolution is false. Evolution is a fact, but random mutations cannot be the engine of evolution, they do not have this power of innovation.

Prof J. Tour (great biochemist) who devoted his life to build synthetic molecules, never ceased to explain this. Mutations break the program (DNA) and cannot create new proteins, new mechanisms, and new coordinated organs, not to say new species. Enginneers here should understand this as I do.

Exact : The Program, CDROM, CDROM reader, and 3D printer all in one in a single cell is over simplification. It is far far more complex mechanisms that cannot emerge from random mutations.

Evolution is a fact we can all see, but the engine of evolution (random mutations) is an unproven theory.

For those who have curiosity, and most engineers should have : Michael Behe was challenged by "Evolution a theory in crisis" by M. Denton

It is not, my account password did not work and I had to create a new one.

DNA is a four state bits program. Can you tell us how random mutations on a computer program (DNA) can create new proteins and new functionnal organs. What happens if you do so on a Windows or Linux program ?