Hey Atheists Try to be Rational and not Angry with My question?

Question

This is a serious question, and please no name calling:
Did Bill Gates Evolve Microsft Windows?

or did Intelligent Programmers write it?

DNA is not Just a Code, It is a Program.

DNA is a program which runs the building of all living creatures, controling all aspects of a creature's life.

It is read, replicates, corrects errors and is so complicated that we have just begun to understand a few words.

If we believe Bill Gates hired intelligent programmers for Windows, why is it so hard to believe that perhap a super-human intelligence wrote DNA code into the programs it is today?
GIGO

Funny how people say that because one is Life and one is a computer they aren't comparable.

DNA is written in a language which consists of four base pairs, it is coded in every sense of the word, it is on an order of magnitude of complexity beyond any computer program, yet it "just evolved".

I am so stupid for believing that God wrote it, created it, ordered it, and really and truly exsists.

I can't but help think of the bible verse
in the book of Romans, ch 1 which says:

Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became foo

fools.............

Answer 1

amen

we happened by chance?
we evolved from lessor creatures?
we can go from thinking the world is flat to space travel in millions or just a few hundred years?

I don't get it either. We were intelligently designed by a supernatural being beyond our understanding.

It took us millions of years to evolve and come out of the caves but just how many years ago was speaking to someone in space not even fathomable!!!

God Bless

Answer 2

Interesting question. Why did you write it for atheists? Many (most) Christians and religious people believe in evolution.


Did Bill Gates Evolve Microsft Windows?

It has gone through a kind of evolution - just not a biological one.

or did Intelligent Programmers write it?

Yes to that, but they worked with what they had before - kind of like evolution.


DNA is not Just a Code, It is a Program.

Not really true.



DNA is a program which runs the building of all living creatures, controling all aspects of a creature's life.

It is read, replicates, corrects errors and is so complicated that we have just begun to understand a few words.

If we believe Bill Gates hired intelligent programmers for Windows, why is it so hard to believe that perhap a super-human intelligence wrote DNA code into the programs it is today?


Because it appears to have evolved naturally from more simple precursors. The vast majority of DNA is junk that is left over from previous ancestors. It changes itself all the time. It makes mistakes all the time. The changes are inheritable (such as the ability to digest nylon - a human invention from the 1950-'s).


EDIT: so you ask us to be rational and not angry and then call us fools?

Answer 3

This is called false logic. It posits one set of truths and then makes a connection where there is none. Computers are machines, humans are living creatures. Biologic entities behave differently than machines. There is no correlation.

Try this one:

No one, not even the most hard-line Christian disputes the fact that cells and DNA from time to time mutate.

Mutation sometimes benefits the organism. Even if you believe this happens less than .01%, it is a fact.

A beneficial mutation will sometimes be passed on to later generations. Again, if you believe this can happen even .01% of the time, it is true.

That is evolution. It's not gorillas falling asleep and waking up as people. It is the ever slightest pattern of genetic mutations and natural selection that makes creatures change over billions of years.

Instead of being so defensive of the "Intelligent Design" theory, why not embrace it as the meld between evolutionists and creationists.

Intelligent Design became a popular belief once creationist found less and less ground to stand on in the wake of the completion of the Human Genome Project.

If it makes you feel better to believe there is a divine hand in the big bang or in the origin of species, go for it. Just consider that it can co-exist in a philosophy that acknowledges the existence and probability of evolution.

Answer 4

They came out of the woodwork to answer this one.
I think your analogy is almost on the mark. Perhaps it is the purpose of God that scientific evidence not be available.
It will be interesting to see where the trail of computer science leads. Put enough circuits and programs together in robotic form and you have a what.....atheist? No god.....no soul....no creation. It will probably just deny its creator's existence and eventually get around to mixing and matching bits and bytes to clone itself. I hope they don't break something patting each other on the back for their cleverness.
As long as God is denied there will be no recognition of the breath of life that was breathed into us. Awareness?....could never happen.
Edit:
This "naturally occuring" DNA is clearly visible....where? What other use could it possibly have ?

Answer 5

Because when Bill Gates started out, he had a purpose, and that was to build Windows.... To get from Point A to Point B, he needed a plan.

When evolution started out it had no purpose, it allowed itself to just meander along.... in Evolution their is Only Point A .. Point B was never predestined by anyone.....

You are supposing that humanity and life was supposed to be the outcome, and why it all started...

If Bill Gates didn't want to build Windows because he didn't care .. he wouldn't have had to hire anyone, now would he? Same thing with evolution....

Answer 6

I'm not an atheist, but...

yes, DNA is complicated. But there is not one shred of evidence that it was crafted - and if it was crafted, by who or what.

If I hypothosize that little flying purple globes of light visited Earth 4 billion years ago and planted DNA as seeds, intending to come back and harvest us all in the year 4000 AD, does that warrant equal footing as any other evidence-less guess (such as the Christian god)?

Is my hypothosis any less believable? No.

Thus we cannot fault atheists for remaining skeptical, or expecting evidence to back up any outrageous claims.

Answer 7

When referring to DNA as a "code" or "program," we are applying metaphor in an attempt to understand its function. In reality, it is neither or these things.

People invented ("intelligently designed") codes and programs. Because DNA is a naturally-occurring molecule and not a code or program, there is no reason to assume it was invented by anyone.

Answer 8

Because we can all interact with Bill Gates and get consistent responses. We can visit Microsoft headquarters and the programmers can explain to us how and why the program was designed.

With god, this is not possible.

To me, it seems that it must take a very narrow mind to not be able to see the difference between things that occur naturally and things that must be produced.

Answer 9

It's only a program if it's intelligently designed. Where's your evidence that it's intelligently designed?

We can't just assume that the correlation between genotype and phenotype constitutes intelligent design, any more than we can assume that the correlation between topography and the course of a river constitutes intelligent design. One results in the other but that fact alone does not tell us that the topography was intelligently designed to produce that particular configuration of river. You need other evidence if that's what you're going to argue.

Answer 10

Computers evolved. Bill Gates didn't magic them from thin air. That's the difference