RE: Signature in the Cell: DNA as Evidence for Design, beside Nature's Laws/Fine-Tuning.
June 17, 2023 at 4:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2023 at 4:44 am by Nishant Xavier.
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(June 17, 2023 at 4:06 am)Tomato Wrote: Poppycock.
Lol. Great Argument, Bro. Logically reasoned through from beginning to end. </sarcasm>
Zebo Wrote:If someone or something wrote the code where did that person come from, and why did he do such a bad job?
The Principle of Contingent Causation answers that. That is St. Thomas' Third Way, and I developed/modified it in another thread. Not sure/can't recall if you posted on that thread, Zebo, but it was deleted for other reasons. Basically, it goes like this: (1) every contingent being requires a cause; (2) the chain of causation cannot go on forever, and therefore, it is not possible for every being in existence to be a contingent being (3) therefore, some being exists non-contingently, i.e. Necessarily, without beginning or end. The proof some such being exists is the impossibility of infinite regress.
While contingent designers (like e.g. hypothesized Alien Designers, which some Atheists now believe in; which might work for DNA, presuming they live on some Alien Planets and designed us) would indeed require another designer, a Necessarily Existent Designer does not, by definition of Necessary Existence. What exists contingently could conceivably or possibly not exist; any alleged Alien Designer would definitely fall into this category, as the planet on which this supposed alien exists could be conceived as not existing. The First Cause of all beings, whom the principle of contingent causation proves to have existed non-contingently, does not.
As for it allegedly being a bad job, that is subjective. Beside the effects of sin on the fallen creation, even Richard Dawkins, and Bill Gates, cited by Meyer, admitted DNA is “DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created". If a Being by Himself is more intelligent than all human beings collectively are, that's significantly Intelligent. Can you or I design a computer program as advanced as DNA is? Not likely.
God Bless.
Edit: Just saw 2 responses before I responded. Will read and respond to other responses later. Regards, Xavier.
