RE: The Problem with Christians
April 8, 2016 at 11:24 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2016 at 11:47 am by Jenny A.)
(April 8, 2016 at 10:31 am)RoadRunner79 Wrote:(April 7, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Incidentally, can you furnish an example of positive evidence for intelligent design? I'm thinking hard, but I'm drawing a blank.
Positive claims are made, in that complex specified information, and irreducible complexity are indicative of design. This is because these things require a choice and planning. Something which an intelligence is capable of, and which natural forces and chance are not. This can be tested by probability studies and knockout tests.
If there is a designer he's amazingly good at constructing complexities out of proteins, yet really bad at functional design and singularly unable to make design changes independent of previous designs. Consider the rather odd and unintelligent way the human eye is constucted. It's amazing it works given the unnecessary blind spot created by running all of the nervestate in front of rather than behind the light receptors. It's a flaw we share with all other mammals, but not with all other animals with eyes. It's analogous to a TV and monitor manufacturer who cannot make design improvemnts to monitors based on improvements to TV screens, or vice-versa.
Odder still he he leaves ever degenerating blue prints for past models cluttering up the current models:[
Quote:Comparison of the DNA genetic sequences of organisms has revealed that organisms that are phylogenetically close have a higher degree of DNA sequence similarity than organisms that are phylogenetically distant. Genetic fragments such as pseudogenes, regions of DNA that are orthologous to a gene in a related organism, but are no longer active and appear to be undergoing a steady process of degeneration from cumulative mutations support common descent alongside the universal biochemical organization and molecular variance patterns found in all organisms. Additional genetic information conclusively supports the relatedness of life and has allowed scientists (since the discovery of DNA) to develop phylogenetic trees: a construction of organisms evolutionary relatedness. It has also led to the development of molecular clock techniques to date taxon divergence times and to calibrate these with the fossil record.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence...on_descent
Imagine the blue prints for a skyscraper interleaved with schematics of huts and wooden trusses misspelled or misdrawn, with notes to ignore the interleaved material. Because that is how genetic blueprints work.
Why it's almost as if the design of living orgaanisms is needlessly complex due to common decent without the ability to remove past mistakes, features, or instructions except gradually through many generations.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.