Is 'faith' really a 'great cop-out'?

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Going back to the String Theory for a brief minute, the guys who are working on this are not basing their 'theory' (in this case not quite the scientific kind) on a tested model, but rather they have other evidence (or clues) that supports the idea of string theory, so their faith in it is not blind or irrational, but a result of other things which lend it credence. When I look at the coded information in dna, this to me, is a clue (the clue is verifiable) that an intelligence is 'behind' this coded information. I cannot 'experience' or 'meet' (I'm struggling to find the right word) this intelligence but I suspect it is there, maybe in the same way the 'strings' may be there.

I think 'faith' can mean different things to people.

Coming to your point Adrian about the dna, would you agree that the 'four letters' in dna comprise a coded language? Because if you do, then would you agree that language, or coded information only comes from a mind? Sure there are patterns in the universe, symmetrical patterns caused by the forces of nature, but a pattern is not the same as language. Language carries a message which needs to be understood or decoded. You need intelligence to decode language. I can make the claim: 'Messages, languages and coded information never,ever come from anything else besides a mind'. Can you provide a single example of a message that did not come from a mind? If you can then I will reconsider my position on dna.

One last thought; the fact that dna is simple does not hamper it from conveying the information. It seems to do a wonderful job (the code can get corrupted of course) of producing say us for example. Maybe 'simple' is best in this case.

Regards Catherine