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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:33 am
(May 4, 2018 at 10:25 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: CDF47 Wrote:Actually 51 percent of scientists believe in God or a higher power and 41 percent don't believe in either and 7 percent don't know or refused to answer based on a Pew Research Poll. I would post the link but I am not yet allowed to.
Dr. Meyer focused on digital information processing as part of his undergrad work and he focused on biology and life's origins as part of his grad work at Cambridge.
51% of scientist in the USA, the most religious developed country. And 51% believing in God or a higher power does not imply that 51% think the origin of DNA is intelligent design. And the opinion of scientists on the topic of the origin of DNA who aren't in a field of biology carries no weight, and is an appeal to inappropriate authority.
In the Academy of Science (the 'best scientists'), it's more like 10% who believe in God or a higher power, btw.
Where are your stats coming from. Post a link or quote a source.
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:37 am
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(May 4, 2018 at 10:14 am)Hammy Wrote: (May 4, 2018 at 9:55 am)Khemikal Wrote: I, personally, have no trouble in conceptualizing a world in which the facts of biology are true -and- there is a god.
It can certainly be conceptualized but there would still be no reason to ever believe in it... even if an apparently godly being showed up. It just comes back to "Who designed the designer?" "Is it an a superintelligent alien with amazing technology capable of deceiving us?" "Are we living in a simulation?" problem.
Ultimately, and this is germane to our new friends post above..it doesn't matter whether or not "god" has a designer. If there is a god (and let;s just imagine he has no contingencies and he;s super duper powerful and interacts with our world)...that;s still not how we got here. If we live in a world in which the proposition "god exists" is true., that doesn't change the fact that we also live in a world where there are facts of biology.
Other believers can reconcile their god stories with the facts of biology, I rate it no higher than a personal tick of specific people when they fail to do so. Neither Cretinism nor IDiocy are requirements of belief..and they would still be false in a universe -with- a god who didn't, himself, evolve.
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:38 am
(May 4, 2018 at 10:23 am)CDF47 Wrote: (May 4, 2018 at 10:05 am)Khemikal Wrote: Goodness, saved from what? Should I lock my doors...clutch my pearls and my guns? Am I under some kind of threat? By whom?
In my religious belief, if you believe in the Son of God you will be saved and have everlasting life in paradise.
Out of all of the versions of "your religion", how do you know you picked the right one?
What evidence do you have to prove that your religion is right and all others are wrong?
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:40 am
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(May 4, 2018 at 10:37 am)Khemikal Wrote: (May 4, 2018 at 10:14 am)Hammy Wrote: It can certainly be conceptualized but there would still be no reason to ever believe in it... even if an apparently godly being showed up. It just comes back to "Who designed the designer?" "Is it an a superintelligent alien with amazing technology capable of deceiving us?" "Are we living in a simulation?" problem.
Ultimately, and this is germane to our new friends post above..it doesn't matter whether or not "god" has a designer. If there is a god (and let;s just imagine he has no contingencies and he;s super duper powerful and interacts with our world)...that;s still not how we got here. If we live in a world in which the proposition "god exists" is true., that doesn't change the fact that we also live in a world where there are facts of biology.
Other believers can reconcile their god stories with the facts of biology, I rate it no higher than a personal tick of specific people when they fail to do so.
It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter. It's still not "God" if the designer evolved naturally or if the designer itself had a designer.
It's not about being pragmatic. It's about being accurate. For all intents and purposes it may as well be deemed "God" but that's not the same thing as it actually being God. A being outside the universe is not something that there can ever be any empirical evidence of.
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:42 am
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I'm not looking to comment on the general coherency or accuracy of god ideas, merely showing that if we accepted the god proposition for the purposes of discussion..that would in no way change the facts of biology. The two would have to be reconciled -together-, as co-equal truths.
Any given believer has to find a way to accept the reality of how we got here, the reality of biology's independence from the divine. "God". lol.essentially, must have been a character wandering the cosmos and happened upon us....immediately thinking:
"That;s a nice house, be a shame if something happened to it."
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:44 am
Quote:Genetic information is a digital code.
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:46 am
(May 4, 2018 at 10:25 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: CDF47 Wrote:Actually 51 percent of scientists believe in God or a higher power and 41 percent don't believe in either and 7 percent don't know or refused to answer based on a Pew Research Poll. I would post the link but I am not yet allowed to.
Dr. Meyer focused on digital information processing as part of his undergrad work and he focused on biology and life's origins as part of his grad work at Cambridge.
51% of scientist in the USA, the most religious developed country. And 51% believing in God or a higher power does not imply that 51% think the origin of DNA is intelligent design. And the opinion of scientists on the topic of the origin of DNA who aren't in a field of biology carries no weight, and is an appeal to inappropriate authority.
In the Academy of Science (the 'best scientists'), it's more like 10% who believe in God or a higher power, btw.
Either this guy is a sock, or he's just repeating what was already said in another thread about this.
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:48 am
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:49 am
(May 4, 2018 at 10:33 am)CDF47 Wrote: (May 4, 2018 at 10:25 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: 51% of scientist in the USA, the most religious developed country. And 51% believing in God or a higher power does not imply that 51% think the origin of DNA is intelligent design. And the opinion of scientists on the topic of the origin of DNA who aren't in a field of biology carries no weight, and is an appeal to inappropriate authority.
In the Academy of Science (the 'best scientists'), it's more like 10% who believe in God or a higher power, btw.
Where are your stats coming from. Post a link or quote a source.
Ironic coming from the guy who threw out stats to begin with. 
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RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 4, 2018 at 10:49 am
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