(December 4, 2019 at 1:05 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The first link Simon Moon provided makes the very salient point that a code is a symbol for another symbol. Adenine, guanine, cytosine, and thymine are names/symbols/words that represent those nucleotides. If you make an acronym out of those words like AGCT, that's a symbol for the words for the nucleotides. THAT is a code, a symbol for other symbols.
True...
But the the nucleotides themselves, in the form of DNA are not a code.
If DNA is a code, then so is H20.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.