Sorry of this offends, I'm actually curious on other's takes on it... Were I designing a being in my likeness, I'd at least put some effort out there not to use 85% Zebra fish parts... I'd certainly avoid using 99% Homo Habilis parts (Being that they were 4 foot tall and incapable of walking upright.) Any ideas why God would choose to intelligently design with the same genetic material if he could've made us any way he chose (as a part of omnipotence)?
2007-04-26 13:02:25 · 16 answers · asked by yelxeH 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't understand DNA?... Please, feel free to enlighten me if you actually have anything to say...
2007-04-26 13:13:34 · update #1
Nice enough metaphor Princess Spacebunny, but the point would be more that if you were writing a kernel (a piece of computer code you give dominion over all other computer code surrounding it), you likely wouldn't just re-impliment a calculator program. Likewise, if it was efficiency and elegance in mind, why are there countless redundant and apparently useless sections of DNA that effectively never gets turned on or when activated serve no practical purpose?... Why would he have typed " #include
2007-04-26 13:17:59 · update #2
A good metaphor, if one is to assume an intelligent designer, might be to look at good writers of computer code. If a particular piece of code can be called by many different routines and programs, then this conserves space and make the design more compact, and IMO, more intelligent. If you can write a program that does the same thing with the same efficiency and less memory usage, then that is good code. An intelligent designer or programmer knows this.
EDIT: Perhaps the apparently useless sections have a use that is not discovered. It has been suggested that the appendix plays a role in immune function (though apparently not vital); there may be a reason for it that is so subtle as to have gone unnoticed by scientists in their researches. It would be interesting to remove an apparently useless section of DNA and see what happened to the expression of the organism in development...I think there are many aspects of the genetic code that are still hidden.
2007-04-26 13:13:30 · answer #1 · answered by Black Dog 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God does not say in the Bible how he created the animals but I would assume if he created Adam out of the dust of the earth, then why not the animals? So then we are all made of the dust of the earth. DNA is a whole lot more complicated than you are saying. Look it up on the internet. There are only certain rungs on the ladder. G T A C the different combinations are what is responsible for the differences.
2007-04-26 20:13:56 · answer #2 · answered by Chloe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, it wasn't laziness it was efficiency. Just like when you compare a Camaro with a Corvette you will see a lot of similarities and maybe some parts that are exactly the same. It just makes sense to use similar parts to perform the same function.
2007-04-26 20:06:38 · answer #3 · answered by Martin S 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps his creativity was bent towards finding a way of making a universe that would eventually end up like he wanted. Evolution, the Big Bang, Cloning... all of these things are not contradictory to religion.
2007-04-26 20:07:03 · answer #4 · answered by Elerth Morrow ™ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I even think humans share a lot of DNA with rats & mice. Maybe God just had a lot of pixie dust or whatever and threw it in the air and man & animals just coalesced. I wonder, too, if God blew the breath of life into each and every animal, all 1.5 million species.
2007-04-26 20:07:59 · answer #5 · answered by bandycat5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It wasn't laziness, just a complete lack of creative inspiration. I think he must've got bored sometime after creating the octopus which was the last cool creature he designed.
Chameleon, suckers, tentacles, soft body, intelligence and a good eye? They have it all!
2007-04-26 20:07:19 · answer #6 · answered by The Bog Nug 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's cool, like mixing colors. You can mix and mix and mix using the same 2 or 3 colors and you will get an infinate number of shades and hues.
2007-04-26 20:05:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
So if you were God, you would be an inefficient, inelegant god? Then I suppose that is your choice. Fortunately, YOU AREN'T. Maybe He wanted to give atheists the opportunity to lie to themselves if they really want to.
2007-04-26 20:11:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Don't apologise for offending those who wish to take offense at a perfectly harmless statement
2007-04-26 20:06:25 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Make it was a limited IQ. He wasn't smart enough to make everything separately.
2007-04-26 21:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋