Does DNA prove creation?

Question

Please watch Lee Strobel before commenting. If you don't want to watch that's OK but don't comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFLk9JS9oZ8&mode=related&search=

Answer 1

The fact that the codes stored in DNA sequences could not have been the product of random mutations would seem to indicate the case for divine creation.

Answer 2

Okay, lets say you have 10 liters of water. You then put a fan over the water to make waves. Now drop 10 stones in the water. Sooner or later, whether it takes 10 day or 10 quadrillion yrs, the stones are going to form the letter A. Sooner or later, the rocks will form the letter A.
Now strobel says that nature can only produce patterns. Is the letter A a pattern? no. Can it possibly be information? Yes.

Case Closed.
If waves can make information, im sure many other things can do it too.

Answer 3

Lee Strobel is a reasonably intelligent man. I have watched his program a number of times. That said, I see NO evidence EITHER way. DNA does not support creation and does not support evolution, at least not by itself. To date, there is nothing outside of the bible which even suggests the possibility that creation was what did it for us. There is evidence which SUGGESTS evolution is possible. So, given absolutely NO evidence and the possibility of, I choose the possibility option over the no evidence option and go with evolution. I'm just optimistic that way...

Answer 4

So...Lee Strobel's "proof" is that DNA is a very efficient storage medium and so it must have been designed by God?

A standard proof of intelligent design theory goes like this:

x is very complicated.
I cannot imagine how it evolved.
Therefore God must have created it.

There are two huge problems with this "proof".

Firstly, a failure of imagination and understanding of how evolution works.Evolution works by creating the improbable through millions of tiny steps, each one of which is very probable. The structure of human DNA is very complex, but it is built of very simple pieces.

Secondly, how does the failure of someone to understand how evolution works lead to the conclusion that "God did it"? That is an even bigger failure of imagination and of logic, too. You cannot just dream up a conclusion like that without some sort of evidence or proof.

This is the problem with these semi-scientific objections to evolution. If you are going to use science and scientific methods to explain something like the structure of DNA, you cannot just invent a sky-fairy to get yourself out of a difficulty. You need to use a science-based proof, not just say "God did it"

Answer 5

I watched it.

DNA is the most accurate road map available that traces the path that evolution took.

If someone wants to acknowledge evolution and believe that evolution was the result of an intelligent designer, well at least they are moving in the right direction and not accepting Biblical creation any more.

OH, and I love how he uses examples from the fictional movie, Contact, to make his point. I wonder if he knows that Carl Sagan was an outspoken atheist.

Answer 6

His argument boils down to this claim: "Nature doesn't produce information." That claim is flat out wrong. Creationists basically try to define "information" as being only the kind of information that is created by intelligence, and then from that definition reach the circular conclusion that only intelligence can create information. However, it is quite clear that the vast majority of the information in our genome is easily explained by the long slow process of evolution. That process is a natural one, and it has created information.

Take away that claim, and the rest of Strobel's speech boils down to an argument from incredulity, and misinterpretation of evidence in order to favor his desired conclusion.

Answer 7

Just because we don't know the precise mechanism by which it arose does not prove creation. Indeed, it doesn't even really suggest that, except to folks like Strobel who want it to. Three hundred years ago, God was a decent explanation for lightning, but the God of the gaps has been shrinking steadily since.

Answer 8

DNA totally disproves creationism. It proves how Apes and Humans have had same ancestor by 99% DNA similarity.

And besides, James Watson, The discoverer of DNA was an atheists too.

Answer 9

I would say proves the opposite, we share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzee.

Additionally just because we do not know yet how something works dose not mean we will not.

Mankind used to think that earthquakes were divine punishment. Now we know what causes them.

Religion is best left to the realm of philosophy, and science is best in the physical world. The two should not mix.

Answer 10

Francis Collins,the director of The Human Genome Project,seems to think so,and I believe he would know a little more about it since he is an accredited expert in this field of science.