The genetic code was discovered about fifty years ago and it has been a challenge for evolution ever since. As we sawlast time it provides an example of evolution’s metaphysical reasoning. As Wikipedia puts it, “the genetic code used by all known forms of life is nearly universal with few minor variations. This suggests that a single evolutionary history underlies the origin of the genetic code.” That, of course, is false—at least from a scientific perspective. In science we may say hypothesis H predicts observation O, but not the reverse. O does not imply H. It doesn’t even suggest H. It merely doesn’t falsify H. To say anything more requires additional premises and, in this case, that is where the metaphysics comes into play. As evolutionist Mark Ridley put it in his evolution textbook, if the species were created they wouldn’t share the same code. That doesn’t come from science. Now there is nothing wrong with metaphysics, per se. The problem here is that evolution claims to be free of any such metaphysics. Like the drunk who doesn’t know he is drunk, those who are most influenced by metaphysics are the most oblivious to it. The evolutionist’s utter reliance on metaphysics reveals an internal contradiction in evolutionary thought. Read more
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Seeing that Dr. Dembski had compared Design detection to SETI research early on, it is good to see this “WOW” paper coming out:
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I find it strange that the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) organization spends millions of dollars vainly searching for signs of extra-terrestrial life in this universe, when all anyone has to do to make solid contact with THE primary ‘extra-terrestrial intelligence’ of the entire universe is to pray with a sincere heart. God certainly does not hide from those who sincerely seek Him. Actually communicating with the Creator of the universe is certainly a lot more exciting than not communicating with some little green men that in all probability do not even exist, unless of course, God decided to create them!
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily…. All my discoveries have been made in an answer to prayer.
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), considered by many to be the greatest scientist of all time
Interesting, but irrelevant to the hypothesis that life was engineered by some intelligence(s).
Genomicus you claim:
Actually Genomicus , contrary to whatever you may prefer to believe beforehand, since the foundational conflict/question between ID and Darwinism is, “from whence are these staggering levels of unfathomed integrated functional information coming from in life???”, then I think it is very relevant to note that the greatest increases of human knowledge have been intimately associated with Christianity.
i.e. There is an inexplicable Christian pattern to the ‘discovery’ of modern science.
The following is a little known fact about modern America’s rise to scientific eminence:
The following video is far more direct in establishing the ‘spiritual’ link to man’s ability to learn new information, in that it shows, from government records, that the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) scores for students showed a steady decline, for seventeen years from the top spot or near the top spot in the world, after the removal of prayer from the public classroom by the Supreme Court, not by public decree, in 1963. Whereas the SAT scores for private Christian schools have consistently remained at the top, or near the top, spot in the world:
Supplemental note:
Moreover the ‘information’ found in life is far deeper than most people realize,, going all they way down to the quantum level,,
It is very interesting to note that quantum entanglement, which conclusively demonstrates that ‘information’ in its pure ‘quantum form’ is completely transcendent of any time and space constraints, should be found in molecular biology on such a massive scale, for how can the quantum entanglement ‘effect’ in biology possibly be explained by a material (matter/energy) ’cause’ when the quantum entanglement ‘effect’ falsified material particles as its own ‘causation’ in the first place? (A. Aspect, Anton Zeilinger) Appealing to the probability of various configurations of material particles, as Darwinism does, simply will not help since a timeless/spaceless cause must be supplied which is beyond the capacity of the material particles themselves to supply! To give a coherent explanation for an effect that is shown to be completely independent of any time and space constraints one is forced to appeal to a cause that is itself not limited to time and space! i.e. Put more simply, you cannot explain a effect by a cause that has been falsified by the very same effect you are seeking to explain! Improbability arguments of various ‘special’ configurations of material particles, which have been a staple of the arguments against neo-Darwinism, simply do not apply since the cause is not within the material particles in the first place!
Genomicus let’s go one step further than molecular biology and ask “from whence is the ‘information’ coming from that makes our universe a coherent, ordered, whole, that the mind of man may grasp and understand, instead of a chaotic, incomprehensible, mess??”
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If you were HOd what would you do!!
Would you make the DNA different for each created thing or would you make each created thing out of a common DNA foundation.
At least either option!
Yet in physics we see the creator with a concept of common laws and foundations.
So why not monkey see, monkey do??
its most reasonable and to be predicted that biology is from one DNA foundation and even the sameness of bodies from one general idea about biology.
We all have ears and legs etc.
This is why man looks like apes.
We are just renting a type of other creatures body because we are uniquely created by GOd and can’t have our identity represented in the common equation for biology.
Anymore then GOd could himself.
DNA discovery is the creationists friend and not the others.
Indeed.
If man had one genetic coding scheme, and the rest of the living world had another (an idea involved in the storyline of the video game Homeworld), EMs would claim that man had evolved on another planet and that the rest of life had evolved on earth.
If each kingdom of life had a different scheme, or if each phylum had a different scheme, we would now be hearing that life had arisen independently multiple times.
If every single species had a different genetic scheme, then we would be hearing that genetic schemes can shift rapidly to another paradigm, and mechanisms by which this could happen would be set forth with great frequency, and all of the similarities between species would be laid at the feet of convergent evolution.
All of this variety of genetic coding would be held forth as disproof of God, with the argument that God would not have re-invented the wheel.