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What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard?
(February 18, 2016 at 11:04 pm)The Gentleman Bastard Wrote:
(February 18, 2016 at 11:00 pm)AAA Wrote: The evidence comes from the information that guides cellular biology. Let's just take an example and run with it. DNA is tightly coiled around histone protein complexes. However, if the organism needs to access this DNA, the histones must loosen their grip on the DNA so the gene contained on it can be transcribed. In order for this loosening to happen, different functional groups are added to a protrusion of the histone. An example is when an acetyl group gets added. This is done by histone acetyltransferase enzymes, which are attracted to the histones by another protein called transcription regulator, which binds to the DNA based on its structure. The acetyl group allows the histones to loosen. General transcription factors then bind to the newly opened DNA. This attracts an RNA polymerase (a molecular machine composed of multiple subunits). This machine makes an mRNA strand, which will then be shipped to where it needs to go by other proteins. It is then translated by a ribosome (another multi-subunit machine). All this to make a protein. All this is guided by the sequence in DNA. Without the sequence you don't get life. How did it get this way progressively?

That's nice, but I wasn't looking for an explanation of how cells work. What's you're evidence that it was designed verses evolved.
Yeah, it is nice. It's very nice. I don't get why to the atheist the null hypothesis is that it evolved. I think our first instinct ought to be design, and the alternate hypothesis (the one you test) should be that it evolved. And the evidence that it designed is that every process needed for life is determined by sequential information. Large amounts of it too. It is unlikely that it got there by chance (I calculated the odds of just one 100 amino acid long protein forming randomly a few pages ago, and it was mathematically impossible). There appears to be no inherent need for them to orient themselves into a functional sequence. So it's not necessity. What are you left with? You can say I don't know and hold out for a better answer, but don't tell me that there is more evidence that it happened without a designer. So far, a designer is the ONLY known cause that is capable of producing that much sequential information. Why do you think it happened without a designer?
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RE: What's the lamest defence of Theism you've ever heard? - by AAA - February 19, 2016 at 12:29 am

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