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[Simon Moon]

2) How do you explain what could be considered evidence of intelligent design (such as DNA) - or the statistical improbability we could have happened by random occurrence.

I forgot to respond to the bolded part of this sentence in my last post.

First, statistical improbability does not add any support for your claim that DNA is evidence for ID. Statistical improbability does not mean 'impossible' without a god intervening. It is statistically improbable that someone will win the lottery, yet happens all the time. Statistical improbable events happen all the time.

It is not possible to determine the statistical improbability of DNA or our existence. We only have one data point. To determine probabilities, we would need many. We only have one instance of our existence, so the only probability we can claim for our existence is 1.

The early earth was like a giant chemistry lab. There were an unimaginably huge number of chemical processes going on all over the earth simultaneously. It wasn't like there was a chemical process that failed to lead to self replicating molecules, then another failure, then another, etc, etc, etc, then, finally, a successful chemical process that lead to self replicating molecules. It was happening in parallel, not in series.

Also, random occurrence is not a fair way to describe it. There are only a limited number of ways, atoms and molecules can come together and react with each other.