The Problem with Christians

[pocaracas]

One of the great problems I see with the view, "it's just chemical reactions" is that there is a distinct lack of intelligence in those reactions, even the self-assembling molecules, which don't possess much in the way of "self-awareness" that DNA possesses. What we see in DNA is the ability to self-scan, self-diagnose and self-repair. In the same way that cells in an embryo differentiate into other cells and migrate into precise locations with specific purposes, as if they have an inbuilt knowledge or intelligent programme that guides them. Such is the case with DNA. There is a massive difference between throwing some chemicals in a petri dish and watching them aggregate, to the kind of intelligent behaviour seen in DNA.

But why?
Why do people believe this?
What is there that makes them accept this unsupported proposition?

Cellular biology is endlessly elegant and screams designer.

No...
If there was a designer, it was an incompetent one.
A designer which can be explained away by evolution.

Go tell that to a 5 year old cancer patient on chemo! "hey kid, god designed you just like that!"

Biological cells, most likely, did not originate with all the complex structures we see today. Heck.... even they protective cover which makes us call them cells must have come after the first self-replicating biological entities were around.