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The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
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RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1)
(October 2, 2013 at 9:58 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote:
(October 2, 2013 at 8:23 am)max-greece Wrote: Wow - what a torrent of information that was. Very good effort, almost convincing in parts.

As ever, though, there is a problem or two (well a few more actually) but in order to address those we need to get you to stop sitting back admiring your work and actually read what is being written.

If you do this you will realize that what you have put together - magnificent as it is - is entirely wrong.

We'll take this one step at a time:

Argument number 1:

Let us start with the assumption that there is a designer God. We will further incorporate all the infallible, all knowing stuff.

So we have perfect God making life perfectly in all its profundity.

God made everything - from the smallest amoeba to Humans, from ants to giraffes and so on.

Now as you know a human being is a much more complex creature than an amoeba which would require much less coding from God to make it.

The RNA that codes for Amoeba's is obviously much simpler than that for a human being, right?

Trouble is - the RNA code for an amoeba is 5 times larger than the DNA code for a human being.....

Which either means we have a God learning on the job or there is no God.

But God knows everything - so he can't be learning on the job.

Therefore, there is no God.

I do not believe that that holds.

You are making an assumption about how God created.

It does present a problem for atheistic origin science.
In reality according to AOS, both are descendants of a common ancestor, and that both evolved over the same time from that ancestor.

So why is their DNA code sizes so different?
There is one amoeba with a code 200x the size as that for mankind.





Well of course you don't believe that holds but your beliefs are not relevant here. I am stating facts so I expect some in return.

I am also making no assumptions over how God did creation. It is irrelevant to me but the question remains - why did he need five times as much genetic coding to make a simple amoeba as he did for a man?

I don't know what you mean by "atheistic origin science." Suffice to say you really don't know anything about evolution. Evolution is the explanation of how we have to many different species on earth. Its mechanism is natural selection. The amoeba, which has been on earth for a very long time (about 3.5 billion years, maybe as much as 4 billion years) didn't have to change to survive in its environment. Natural Selection didn't need to make changes so unsurprisingly, it didn't.

Our common ancestor dates back before then.

DNA/RNA sizes differ as evolution kicks in. Much DNA/RNA was discarded along the way whilst newer coding came in. The newer coding was smaller.

So we return to your problem:

God needed 5 times as much DNA for an amoeba as he needed for a man, indeed, as you kindly provided, up to 200 times for some species as he needed for a man. Why?

(October 2, 2013 at 10:20 am)Esquilax Wrote:
(October 2, 2013 at 9:58 am)SavedByGraceThruFaith Wrote: It does present a problem for atheistic origin science.
In reality according to AOS, both are descendants of a common ancestor, and that both evolved over the same time from that ancestor.

So why is their DNA code sizes so different?
There is one amoeba with a code 200x the size as that for mankind.

Because there's no requirement that the sizes be the same, or be in concordance with the complexity of the organism, and the theory of evolution has never demanded otherwise?

I can understand why you'd think that, it has a certain amount of intuitive logic to it, but it's just not the case; the question isn't "why is this so?" but rather "what advantage does this confer to the amoeba?"

Incidentally, I did what you did not, which is look this up first: maybe this would clear things up a bit? See, before you call something a problem for atheists, you should make sure that is the case, but we already had an answer before you posed the claim so I have to ask: did you bother looking before you posted any of this? Thinking

Quote:This topic was to show that there must be an explanation for the complexity of life.

Yes. Yes, there must be an explanation. However, silence from one corner as to what that explanation might be does not make yours correct by default. Think about that.

Quote:Or a fallen and cursed creation as the result of the sin of Adam and Eve.

Why would giraffe necks change because of something Adam and Eve did?

Prove your assertion, don't just make it.

Quote:BTW, since the 18th century, the case against atheistic origin science is now even greater because of the discoveries in DNA, RNA, and the workings of the cell.

Alright, hot shot: how?

Quote:When an atheist proposes God as a rebuttal, the atheist has disproved himself.

Only if you're a deist. But you aren't, are you? You're a christian.

All gods are not your god. And hypotheticals do not mean we believe in god, they just mean we're asking you to account for variables you haven't yet addressed.

Quote:Atheistic origin science has completely failed to explain the universe and life.

So has religion. Science has gotten us further.

Quote:How do you know it will ever be able to?

Even if it doesn't, it'll be further along that religion.

Oh, and, argument from ignorance.

Again.

Nice response but its possible you missed my feeder into this.

I raised the amoeba as an example to show that simpler life forms can have more complex DNA/RNA that more complex ones.

This is no problem for evolution (as you demonstrated) but it makes a mockery of the "design" theory of life.

Why would God need more genetic material to design an amoeba than he would for a man?
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RE: The vast complexity of living things proves that God exists (proof 1) - by max-greece - October 2, 2013 at 10:26 am

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