If you found a calculator on the Moon you would conclude it was designed. Why wasn't this same conclusion drawn when DNA was discovered? It meets all the requirements of a "technology"
2007-01-13 07:27:12 · 6 answers · asked by Zefram 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Is this a serious question? It seems remarkably naïve - since the publication of 'On the Origin of Species' nobody can say something that looks designed IS designed - there are such things as complexity theory as well.
I think you need to look up evolution and abiogenesis.
2007-01-13 07:54:02 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because a calculator is an assembled, trimmed, piece of equipment, made out of highly heterogeneous materials with no apparent relationship with one another.
If DNA were a machine, it would be a very poorly designed one. First of all, DNA itself does not do anything, and most of it is junk. Messenger RNA makes a copy of the DNA sequence, and brings it to the proteins in the nucleus. For most strands on the double helix, nothing happens. The sequence just sits there, and nothing happens. Only for a small percentage of the strand, proteins in the nucleus respond in certain ways.
Although the inner workings of a cell are certainly miraculous, there is clear evidence of its non-deliberate nature. Aside from the junk DNA is the presence of an almost completely alien life inside the cell - the mitochondrion - the metabolism-generating portion of the cell that has its own DNA code.
The mitochondria's strange nature seems to suggest that a long distant bacterial ancestor swallowed a mitocondrion, and began a symbiotic relationship with it.
2007-01-13 16:07:09 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Not at all equivalent.
1. *None* of the building blocks required to make a calculator can be found on the moon. This is not true of DNA on the earth ... *All* the building blocks required to make DNA are found in great abundance on the earth.
2. A calculator does not replicate with inheritance. DNA does. Thus a calculator cannot be the product of natural selection. DNA can. (DNA was probably long preceded by RNA, which is *much* simpler, and had better catalytic properties than DNA.)
Bad example. Try again.
2007-01-13 16:15:36 · answer #3 · answered by secretsauce 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well yes it meets them. but why would a calculator. be their if it was not from earth? if their was a object on the moon not put their by us then that's mean that theiris a more advanced race able to travel vast dist acne so off all Things to be left on the moon why a Calulator? and if they a able to travel that far you think they would have a calculator it would be more like a hand held AI device of some kind lol
2007-01-13 15:54:01 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I’m sure that nothing could appear just so by itself. The idea must be first. This idea belongs to Creator. The whole science proves it!
2007-01-16 19:02:47 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting, all creationist / designer arguments are presented with flawed logic
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2007-01-13 16:44:59 · answer #6 · answered by Icteridae 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋