After much reading and careful pondering I will accept that using 'language' or 'code' when discussing dna is probably not a good thing to do. It opens up a minefield of problems (semantics, types of philosophical arguments) which tend to side track the issue. (I came across a forum which had been debating this very issue for the last three years!!) One thing seems clear to me: the various molecules are doing things in an ‘ordered’ way which then results in a living ‘creature’. Why do these molecules replicate, break off, move in one direction rather than another etc? So I think this might be where the idea of ‘language’ comes from. If I may be permitted to offer a different perspective and ask: do all of these processes just mentioned, which result in producing very complex living beings, suggest an intelligence or plan even, which is ultimately responsible for their existence? I would say yes, they do. I remember when I was still quite young, in my teens and I watched a film animation about the cell. I was amazed at how similar it was to a factory, how all the parts of the cell had their own jobs to do etc. It was as if I had my own eureka moment and realised that the Creator is perceived via the world. That’s me though.
"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility"
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein
