Did God design the genetic code?

Question

Or did it arise by chance?

Answer 1

By Design....

Answer 2

"If time began with the Big Bang, then no natural cause could have made the universe, since natural causes require time." This is what we call an assumption. You have assumed that natural causes require time and thus have assumed that there cannot be a natural cause to the start of the universe. Lets debunk this for a second;) Imagine if you could freeze time. Thus all time is stopped. Gravity is still present however nothing would be falling as the falling requires time, not the gravity that causes it. Thus natural causes would still exist in a timeless environment but the effects would not until time exists. It could be that the natural effect of having absolute nothing is the existence of time and space, ergo, Big-Bang. Now the important bit, we cannot jump from "I don't know how time and space can occur without a cause" to "God did it." there are just too many gaps in between to rationalize it. "If living organisms appeared from inanimate matter directed by genetic code, who wrote the code? Whenever we find coded messages, we find intelligence." - The term "code" in "genetic code" is not used in the same manner as an encoded message. It is information that has been filtered by evolution so that it does not contain as much junk as it would otherwise. It still contains the code for chickens to produce teeth which is explained by evolution but is not explained by "God did it." Why would a God produce chicken genes that could switch on tooth growth? EDIT: I was just using the frozen time analogy to show that just because you don't have time does not mean that you do not have basic laws of physics. It is also possible that the "laws" that we see today may not have been the same when the universe began. One of those laws may well be that where you have absolute nothing a universe comes into existence. The issue here is that nobody knows with absolute certainty and to use that as an entry point for God is ridiculous. It is better to say "I don't know but will continue looking" than to say "I don't know so God did it and I can stop looking."

Answer 3

Imagine you have a bunch of steel ball bearings of various sizes in a large jar. You put the jar in a paint shaker. In a few minutes the ball bearings start organizing themselves into a pattern. The smaller ones fall into the bottom of the jar, falling between the cracks between the larger ones. Inevitable the larger ones rise to the top. Soon there are very few small bearings at the top and even fewer large bearing at the bottom.

Did someone sort the bearings or did arrange themselves in order by chance?

The real answer is neither of these is true. The question asked presents a false dichotomy, asking "Do you go north or south?" when you can just as easily go west or east.

The bearing became ordered due to a few simple inherent traits about their shape and size.

In the same way the genetic code, although intensely complicated is arranged by s number of basic chemical concepts inherent in a type of chemical called nucleotides and peptides. Self replication and pattern formation is just inherent in these sort of chemicals.

Answer 4

God didn't create genetic code, the Genetic Code has existed longer then God Has been God. Even God has Genetic Code.

Answer 5

God designed it. Ever wonder why our DNA is so similar to that of most other creatures? Scientists say it's from random mutations, but all the mutations they've produced in the labs have been very non-beneficial. We're similar because we had a common creator, not a "common ancestor". It makes sense that since the same guy designed everything, that everything would have very similar DNA, right? What are your views on this topic?

Answer 6

God created the genetic code and everything else

Answer 7

He designed it ORIGINALLY. But God, because of His desire for free choice, allows things to change randomly.

The whole world is NOT as He created it and neither are human beings.

Gal 3:21-22
22 But the Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.
(from New International Version)


Rom 8:18-23

18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. 19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. 20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope 21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

22 We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. 23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
(from New International Version)

Answer 8

Yes, God's a chemist. He graduated from Kent State University with a 3.21 GPA.

Answer 9

God created all living things.

Answer 10

genetic code, well its a randomly occuring variable, the acid bases can be desigined but not the randomly occuring variable it can't be engineered