DNA Proves Existence of a Designer

[drfuzzy]

Out of all of the versions of "your religion", how do you know you picked the right one? 

What evidence do you have to prove that your religion is right and all others are wrong?

It is based on the Holy Scriptures.  I use the best discernment I can to determine the text but I realize I am a fallible human.

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It doesn't matter if it doesn't matter. It's still not "God" if the designer evolved naturally or if the designer itself had a designer.

It's not about being pragmatic. It's about being accurate. For all intents and purposes it may as well be deemed "God" but that's not the same thing as it actually being God. A being outside the universe is not something that there can ever be any empirical evidence of.

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Maybe or maybe not but the signatures of that being can be detected within the creation (i.e. highly sophisticated machines in the cell, advanced digital code in DNA, fine-tuned universe, 0 space at the Big Bang,.....).

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Nope

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Yes, digital code is not always binary 0s and 1s.  This is a 4-digit digital code.

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Either this guy is a sock, or he's just repeating what was already said in another thread about this.

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Just pulled those figures from the web from a Pew study.

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Again, you're asserting what you ought to be supporting.

What you're basically saying is 'All the X we've seen up until now has been caused by W. Here is a new X that is not clearly caused by W. But we know X is caused by W, so this X must be caused by W as well.'

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It's not a very good argument, and it doesn't help that in this case the X in question (DNA) is quite dissimilar in important ways from the previous X's it's being compared to (language, computer programs, human artifacts).

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Yeah, this X in question is the most highly complex and specific in the known universe.

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So.......... you really don't have answers for me, just believe. That's the best you can offer? You can't tell me which jesus is the right one?

This is what taught me that christianity was bullshit.

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The Jesus of the Bible.  I would recommend you follow the One you read about in the Scriptures and to make sure to read it yourself (all of it).

"It is based on the Holy Scriptures.  I use the best discernment I can to determine the text but I realize I am a fallible human."
     Interesting that there are so many sects and denominations based on that one book.  Interesting that you can get a dozen preachers in a room and they will nearly come to blows over their personal "discernment" of a single scripture passage.  

"Yeah, this X in question is the most highly complex and specific in the known universe."
     And if that X is ever proved to exist, or better yet, proves its own existence without the need for a book or human mouthpiece with a con-artist complex and an active imagination, that will be worth some attention.  However, we have seen many thousands of years of abject failure so far, and "X" is utterly irrelevant to daily life.  

"The Jesus of the Bible.  I would recommend you follow the One you read about in the Scriptures and to make sure to read it yourself (all of it)."
     I was raised Fundamentalist Pentecostal.  I have read all of the Bible many, many times and I have most of it memorized.  Jesus of Nazareth, if he existed, was a street preacher who was upset at the Religious Leaders of his day.  The Bible is a ridiculously flawed collection of old fairy tales.  It proves nothing except that the books were written by man and the God described in its pages is a reprehensible work of fiction.  Yet people still seem to think that it is somehow special and that all that they have to do is quote verses to gain control over others.  Perhaps you should read it as you would any other piece of literature - as something that you are allowed to question.  

The Bible is no proof of god, it is simply the claim.  It's the same as saying that Voldemort exists because the Harry Potter books tell his story.