Intelligent Design proponents - care to help?

Question

Could you please explain to me, the problem resulting from the discovery of nylon-eating bacteria?

Where did the CSI for nylonase—the actual protein that the bacteria use to break down the nylon—come from?

Here's a clue:

There are three possibilities:

1, The nylonase gene was present in the bacterial genome all along.

2, The CSI for nylonase was inserted into the bacteria by a Supreme Being.

3, The ability to digest nylon arose spontaneously as a result of mutation. Because it allowed the bacteria to take advantage of a new resource, the ability stuck and was eventually passed on to future generations.

Aww, bless! 'slickyboy40' - did I use too many big words for you? Is that why you couldn't answer the question?

LOL

Erm...Josh? I hate to burst your bubble(well, hate's a strong word, how about love instead), but Time can't "materialise"...it's a non-material dimension, bub.

Answer 1

It would be interesting to hear an "ID" explanation for anything at all.
What did the design process look like?
When was each plant or animal designed?
How long did it take to design each one?
How were they stored while the other species were designed?
How did it go from design to production?

If you take ID seriously, there are hundreds of extremely difficult questions to answer. I can't say that I've ever heard anyone even ask them, which I take to mean that no-one actually takes ID (creationism) seriously.

Answer 2

SCIENTIFIC PROBLEMS WITH MACROEVOLUTION:

(Karl Popper's definition of the scientific method )

1. OBSERVATION -steps of evolution have never been observed (Stebbins )

In the fossil recordwe view our data as so bad that we never see the very process we profess to study.(Gould )

2. EXPERIMENTATION -The processes would exceed the lifetime of any

human experimenter (Dobzhansky )

3. REPRODUCTION impossible to reproduce in the laboratory. (Dobshansky )

4. FALSIFICATION -cannot be refuted thus outside empirical science. (Ehrlich )



RESEARCH PROBLEMS WITH MACROEVOLUTION:

1. ORIGINS -the chance of life originating from inorganic chemical elements by natural means is beyond the realm of possibility (Hoyle )

2. DEVELOPMENT -to produce a new organism from an existing life-form requires alterations in the genetic material which are lethal to the organism (Maddox )

3. STASIS -enzymes in the cell nucleus repair errors in the DNA (Barton )

4. GEOLOGIC COLUMN -out-of-place artifacts have been found in earth's sedimentary layers which disrupt the supposed evolutionary order (Corliss )

5. DESIGN -irreducible complexity within the structure of the cell requires design (Denton, Behe ).


(DNA REPAIR: The genome is reproduced very faithfully and there are enzymes

which repair the DNA, where errors have been made or when the DNA is

damaged. - D.H.R. Barton, Professor of Chemistry, Texas A&M University,

Nobel Prize for Chemistry )


(CHANGE WITHIN GENETIC BOUNDARIES: Microevolution does not lead beyond the confines of the species, and the typical products of microevolution,

the geographic races, are not incipient species. There is no such category as

incipient species. Richard B. Goldschmidt )


(MUTATION ACCUMULATIONS RELENTLESSLY FATAL: Any random change

in a complex, specific, functioning system wrecks that system. And living things

are the most complex functioning systems in the universe.Science has now

quantitated that a genetic mutation of as little as 1 billionth (0.0000001%) of an

animal's genome is relentlessly fatal.The genetic difference between human and

his nearest relative, the chimpanzee, is at least 1.6% Calculated out that is a

gap of at least 48 million nucleotide differences that must be bridged by random

changes. And a random change of only 3 nucleotides is fatal to an animal.

Answer 3

Intelligent design is gaining momentum. Ever since the universe was proved to be finite (both spatial finite and temporally finite), the question has arisen what happened at the moment time began. What caused time and space to suddenly materialize into existence? These are questions that can't possibly be explained scientifically because science is bound by space and time. Only an time transcending God could possibly be responsible for the creation of the universe. After you've accepted that, accepting that He designed and breathed into existence all life on the planet is really much of a leap up faith.

Answer 4

You started with bacteria, you ended with bacteria. Big deal.

Nobody ever argued that things don't change; you just have no evidence of change across species lines or life from lifelessness.

Answer 5

Correct me if I'm wrong here...but isn't ID basically God-directed evolution?