(September 12, 2013 at 9:34 am)Jiggerj Wrote: I knew this topic would go here. It was just easier to write my thread the way I did and wait for this reply. If all that information wasn't in the first cell, then it at least had some kind of programming on learning how to adapt in the future to any and all environments.
THAT is still mind-boggling!
Thanks for your reply.
Did it have "some kind of programming on learning how to adapt"? What gives you that idea? In all likelihood, all it had was the programming for imperfect replication and an error in one such replication resulted in existence of "adaptive programming". Not mind-boggling at all.
(September 12, 2013 at 9:34 am)Jiggerj Wrote: Why? Atheists can't believe that life came from someplace other than this planet, or that there might be highly intelligent (non-perfect) beings in another dimension tampering with the ingredients of life in a lab somewhere?
No, I don't believe in a perfect being, or magic, but all other options are wide open.
Then you are just pushing the envelop one step back. Where did those supposed beings in another dimension come from?