(March 14, 2016 at 11:52 pm)AJW333 Wrote: No evidence for a creator? The human genetic code is 3,000,000,000 bits long and somehow this code either wrote itself or developed itself by endless mutations that would normally cause a decrease in information and increase the risk of death and disability. You have to have so much faith in the process of positive mutation that it makes far more sense to believe the code was written by an intelligent creator.
Until you realize that this intelligent creator had to come out of nowhere or be created by some even greater being (which would itself have to have been created by an even greater being, ad infinitum), which adds an infinite number of extra layers of unimaginable unlikelihood.
Look at the language you are using, and see the biases inherent in that language. DNA has a 'code' only in the sense that its structure is analogous to the sort of code people create. This analog is not proof that DNA was created in the same way that computer code is created.
Furthermore, most mutations do indeed increase death and disability. It's only the rare beneficial mutations which stick around.
Quote:How many pregnant women are hoping that their baby has a mutation in their DNA? None I would imagine because the end result is overwhelmingly negative. So if our real, actual experience of DNA mutation amounts to a pile of crap, why would you believe that it lead to the development of such an amazingly complex and functional code? As a process, mutation of the human DNA has very little, if anything going for it.
Shouldn't the more cogent question be, why hasn't God debugged his code more thoroughly?
