Posted on 08/02/2019 7:49:16 PM PDT by robowombat
“Every form of life shares the same DNA encoding mechanisms and that mechanism itself evolved as a more stable molecule from its RNA ancestor. The same five nucleotides, the same 20 amino acids, the same drift statistics in the mitochondrial DNA, the same cellular machinery of ribosomes generating proteins from mRNA copied from the nuclear DNA”
These observations also can be construed as evidence for design.
I see the commonality of biological molecules among life as being due to physics.
These molecules have the physical properties necessary for life.
If there were life elsewhere it would also have the same commonalities because physics and chemistry are the same though out the universe.
As we grow older, the life long nagging of Devine revelation will ultimately take its toll.
The True, The Good and The Beautiful will find it’s way through the most stubborn of minds.
“Is this sacrifice of the individual for the survival of the population something a loving intelligence would design in?”
Well - according to the Bible, that is exactly what happened in one particular instance!
Not bashing you - just found it striking!
If you take the ‘no’ out you also have to take the ‘not’ out.
So it would read: Therefore there are examples of mutations that affect early development and the body plan as a whole that ARE fatal.
An intelligent designer would not constrain every species this way because it would be redundant and inefficient and subject to massive failures due to disease and decay over time.
Hmm, come to think of it, also like Microsoft.
This is how Larry Summers lost his job as President of Harvard. Which took some doing, because IIRC, when he got his PhD, he was the youngest person ever to have been granted a PhD by Harvard.
It it long past time for a purge of the liberals and Marxists from all areas of life.
The *property* of Gold is very controversial.
Everyone wants to pretend it belongs to them. :-P
You just committed Star Trek blasphemy.
"It's life, Jim, but not as we know it."
No Intelligence Allowed is an excellent movie about the academic blackballing that is practiced against Intelligent Design.
So, let us in on the truth so we can all be in the know....
In my 75 years of experience, discussions like this one, requiring an intuitive or working ability to use or discuss mathematical sizing, is problematic for most. Revealing the simple mathematical fact that the Sun’s volume equals the total volumes of 1 million 3 hundred thousand Earths is an impossible mental feat for most to accomplish. Comprehending the size and complexity of the DNA code is another example. Most are incapable of intuitively sizing these phenomena.
And a biologist isn't a mathematician ...
Te fossil record as yet to provide a single bridge animal demonstrating transition from one creature to another. Without this there is no evidence of evolution. We know that animals change their characteristics based on disparate gene pools. Some fish of the same species may vary considerably as remote populations.
Science long ago gave up Darwin as a solid bedrock set of scientific principles. The notion of gradual change over millennium remains a decided belief. The difficulty is there is no hard evidence that monkeys became man or that fish learned to walk on land. There are no transition fossils showing these changes are linked.
All that is required to convert chaos into order is an energy source.
Every morning the Sun rises.
No need for hypotheticals of randomness and winning the lottery.
You are confusing adaptations with evolved species. By your definition a redhead is a different species than a blond person. Where did life come from?
The bad part of my post was my reference to George Carlin’s idiom about our phylum inference to monkeys in that since we evolved from them, why are they still here?
It’s the same answer, since we increased our knowledge and our ability to reason with what could only be called natural selection, why is he still here?
rwood
This may be off topic, but I have always noticed that intelligent design is completely incompatible with free will.
God creates you with His own personal chemical formula.
He chooses the time period and the geographic region you grow up in.
He chooses your parents and your family.
He chooses your IQ and your physical abilities and disabilities.
Then, He tells you if you do not calmly accept every decision He has made, and if you do not worship Him, He will torture you for all eternity after you die.
Forget that noise!
Human beings do not have free will unless they have a fully informed opportunity to opt out of being born.
——Then, He tells you if you do not calmly accept every decision He has made, and if you do not worship Him, He will torture you for all eternity after you die.——
Clearly, you have a very strange concept of God and free will...
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