(May 15, 2018 at 1:29 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:(May 15, 2018 at 7:28 am)CDF47 Wrote: What do atheists think, that the DNA code wrote itself. That is something most software engineers would laugh at.
That’s why software engineers are not scientists.
Being an engineer means one could recite some of what science has discovered that has immediate application to a task. It is somewhat like a Christian could recite the Bible, the Muslim could recite the Koran, the Buddhist can chant a mantra or you can chant the nonsense about irreducible complexity, they were told what is true and how to apply it, and have no real ability to replicate, validate or extend the process of original discovery.
But being an engineer does not even begin to bridge the gap to actually doing science, which is a process of active discovery and validatiom of models that can demonstrably provide predictive analogues to the going’s on in the real world, and is thus quite unlike a Christian reciting the Bible, the Muslim reciting the Koran, the Buddhist chanting a mantra or you chanting irreducible complexity.
A software engineer know it takes a programmer to write a code. They see a code in DNA and know it didn't write itself. It's that intuitive.