RE: The code that is DNA
December 5, 2019 at 10:22 am
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2019 at 10:29 am by Mister Agenda.)
(December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: So you claim to know the mind of God and that he intended to make perfect world and thus perfect DNA?
All we know about anyone's gods is what their followers have to say about them. They seem perfectly comfortable for the most part to declare what's on the minds of their various gods. The tri-Omni God is supposed to be perfect, it seems a contradiction for something perfect to create imperfection.
(December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: Imperfections are explained away in the Bible.
I agree that the Bible attempts to explain away a perfect creator creating an imperfect world, I don't agree that its attempts are successful.
(December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: Is the code of any OS perfect? No but guess what? It’s still a code.
It's both imperfect and not literally a code. I note that you don't address explanations of why it's not literally a code.
(December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: It’s the sequence of nucleotides that is not random. Did the decoding aspect of the system (rna transport) evolve simultaneously as the formulation of nucleotide sequence? Coincidence?
It's bot not random and not arbitrary. To be a code, it has to be arbitrary. Other chemicals can't do the same job, because it's chemistry, not literal coding. How DNA evolved is unclear since it happened over 3 billion years ago and there's little evidence left; but what little we have suggests that RNA evolved first and was able to do both store and transmit protein formation catalyzation sequences; DNA was better at storage and evolved to take over that role.
(December 4, 2019 at 2:35 pm)Yukon_Jack Wrote: It’s 10+ against one here, do you really expect me to reply to each post?
You're not expected to respond to each post. Which posts you elect to respond to says a lot about you. I recommend that you choose to address the posts that are the most challenging to your position; which will also address other people's points and questions in the process. I recommend you ignore posts that are merely humorous or insulting.
(December 4, 2019 at 4:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Early on, you said the sequence of nucleotides was 'arbitrary'. Now you're saying that it's 'not random'.
Can you resolve this?
Boru
I'll take a shot, as designer's advocate. Arbitrary isn't necessarily random, although it can be. I can arbitrarily designate that '#' will mean 'i' go#ng forward, but the appearance of '#' thereafter w#ll not be random. The cho#ce of symbols was arb#trary, but the use of them #s not.
The real problem with the claim that DNA is a code composed of arbitrary symbols (which a code necessarily is) is that nucleotide sequences are not arbitrary, they are chemically necessary to get the outcome they produce.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.