(November 24, 2018 at 6:49 pm)Everen Wrote:(November 24, 2018 at 5:57 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Life likely began as a relatively simple self-replicator. An auto-catalytic chemical reaction that makes more of itself from molecules present in the early oceans. We've produced self-replicating molecules in the lab and they exhibit both mutation and heredity. DNA and DNA were likely evolved later as more robust molecule for information storage.Why and how would that ever possibly even happen without any intelligence involved? What you're saying is just like saying a large rock in your front yard created all life one day with no information, intelligence or purpose. NOPE NOT POSSIBLE.
(1) In case nobody ever mentioned, using all caps on the interweb is the equivalent of SHOUTING and is considered rude.
(2) It's entirely possible once you jettison the notion that anything was "created". A simple self-replicator occurs by chance and evolves into more complex self-replicators that could not easily arise spontaneously.
Quote:(November 24, 2018 at 5:57 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: The information in your genome comes from the environment.
What part of the environment contains information and how exactly did this information get in to the environment? You cannot have information without intelligence by the way. AGAIN, not possible.
You most certainly can have information without intelligence. The amount of information that is stored in a single zircon grain, crystallized without one shred of intellect, is startling.
Information exists in everything. That big rock in my front yard contains the information "Here is a rock!" Further examination will reveal a whole host of other information, e.g.: "Here is a 1.278 tonne block of sandstone, a sedimentary rock formed near the surface of the Earth's crust..." No thought required until you want to get that information out.
Quote:(November 24, 2018 at 5:57 pm)Paleophyte Wrote: Mutation adds random noise to your genetic material. Usually this is useless or detrimental. Rarely it helps you survive just a little bit better. Natural selection removes the detrimental mutations, leaving behind information that helps you survive.
We've watched this happen. God didn't make nylon-eating bacteria and he didn't turn lizards on an island into vegetarians.
God sure did create everything and everything happens for a reason.
Prove it.