The Problem with Christians

[AJW333]

DNA is not a code.

What can I say? It appears that the majority of articles denying that DNA is a code are written by people with an agenda - an atheistic one. Since the 1960s DNA has been universally recognised as a code by all of the top experts in the field. The term "coding" is used ALL the time in reference to genetic replication.

This argument from analogy isn't new to us, and it's no more fallacious the hundredth time we hear it than it was on the first. The only difference here is that you've front-loaded it with a bald assertion as to the impossibility of a random code with nothing to justify it.

How about the fact that that random = disordered and code = ordered.  A random code is an oxymoron. Can you show me a scientific proof that codes form through random activity?

Be that as it may, you have to assemble those building blocks in a meaningful sequence to make intelligent code and therefor life. This doesn't happen through random activity. Where do we see this?

if I had no answer to give you, do that mean that your god wins by default?

If what you expect random activity to accomplish is way outside the activity that is normally seen and defies scientific explanation, then it's not such an outrageous conclusion to come to.

Well that's an interesting argument but looking at a barren earth 4.5 billion years ago turning into a place that is literally teeming with incredibly complex life forms, it still represents a massive reversal of local entropy, especially considering that the contributions from outside the local system of the earth appear to be somewhat limited.

And I ask you: what seems more entropic to you: a barren, lifeless rock, or a world teeming with organisms that expend energy and change it and alter that rock in ever more chaotic ways?

The higher the entropy, the lower the availability of the system's energy to do useful work. How much work does a rock do when compared to living organisms?

Also, "somewhat limited" contributions from outside Earth? When we receive endless solar radiation from the sun, meteors and other space debris in our atmosphere, and a continual dose of radiation from space that's only really blocked out by that same atmosphere? Not to mention all the emissions from other stellar bodies that we continue to receive on Earth after traveling so many lightyears to get here. This is not limited, it's a bombardment from every side. It's just not all immediately detectable by any old guy with a keyboard.

So how does adding heat, radiation and some space rocks turn random chemicals into DNA? Is there a model for how this happens?