RE: What beliefs would we consider reasonable for a self proclaimed Christian to hold?
March 20, 2018 at 6:09 am
(March 19, 2018 at 12:06 pm)Khemikal Wrote: DNA is neither engineered -nor- a product of "happenstance". It's deoxyribonucleic acid, one of those chemicals with "specific activities"- in this case self replication...constrained on all sides by organic chemistry and demonstrably a product -of- organic chemistry.
I think it is both - DNA, like any element and chemical activity is a design which allows for random results, but it also has certain attractions at each level to produce the desired product.
I guess you could compare it to computers starting off with very strict and limited programs to produce predicable activities.
Having achieved that we are happy to throw in randomness for the sake of AI.