DNA is not dumb

I don't believe in evolution. Actually, let me correct that, I do believe in evolution, but not the common simplified form that is typically taught...

I don't believe in the idea that random point mutations provide the primary thrust for the evolution of species.

I am not arguing for Intelligent Design, nor am I proposing anything counter to current scientific pursuits. I just have trouble believing that the level of complexity we see today could arise out of random mutation in only 4B years.

Instead, I propose that DNA and the reproductive process itself uses DNA adaptation to propogate itself (perhaps adaptation based on variable control of the process of correcting point mutations). Organisms that are able to adapt their DNA more quickly to environmental change will propogate their DNA more effectively. Survival at a genetic level depends on the ability for the organism to evolve. Why leave that entirely to chance?

Again, I am not arguing the mechanism of adaptation is the direct hand of some higher-level force, but the argument instead is that DNA and reproduction are complex processes that may have themselves evolved to enable and support selective adapation. Why would such a critical biological process have remained simplistic when the rest of our biological processes have continued to evolve in complexity?

We still have yet to understand what the vast majority of the genetic code does. Nor can we really explain from an information theory space how the complex structure of an organism arises from DNAs. We don't understand how DNA strands evolve to change in length to incorporate new material. We don't know definitively if viruses can alter the genetic structure in ways that pass down to children. We don't understand how epigenetics plays into evolution or how significant horizatonal gene transfer is in both bacteria or higher-level organisms.

As we begin to understand the mechanisms for genetic evolution, we may start to find that Lamarck wasn't entirely off-base.