Even a message containing one short string of increasing prime numbers would be all the proof required to say that only an intelligent life form could have produced the message, right? I would agree.
But then what about DNA? Stay with me - even Amoebas - one of the most primitive single celled organisms which would have been among the first life forms on this planet - contain vast quantities of information in their DNA.
Each amoeba in it's cell nucleus contains enough information to fill a 30 volume set of the Encyclopedia Britannica. And this information is all specific instructions on how the ameoba can live, eat, and replicate itself.
How did this happen? Couldn't this be a message from our maker? Proof of an intelligent designer? Why or why not?
2007-09-10 07:54:47 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
That has to be the most reasonable argument for intelligent design I have heard yet. The problem is that it is a faulty analogy. Having a complex organized structure like DNA only constitutes the complex nature of life. The ability to communicate or broadcast that or any other data across the galaxy/universe lends itself to intelligence.
The degree of intelligence will be determined later, because it could be the process of some extra-terrestrial being to emit radio waves of an ordered nature and not an intentional broadcast used for communication.
2007-09-10 08:12:51 · answer #1 · answered by most important person you know 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow, you're all over the map on this one.
Intelligent life in space- need a non repeating coherent signal of some kind. No pulses, no jumbled background noise.
DNA- The earth is approximatly 6 -10 billion years old, of that time life has been here for about 4-6 billion years, for three quarter of that time life was a single celled critters wiggling around in some ooze. Single cell critters took a long time to get going, I'm sure there were a lot of starts stops and dead ends in the process. Just cause something is complicated doesn't mean it needs a designer. If there is a supply of food or resource, life will take advantage of it.
Humans have no concept of how long a billion years is, it is beyond our comprehension, as is the infinity of space, to make it easier to understand we invent deities to try and know the unknowable. That's why some people need god, and that's fine.
At least that's what I think. I'm just a smart ape with a big brain, other smarter apes figured all this stuff out, maybe a really smart ape will figure it all out one day.
2007-09-10 08:19:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Active DNA is "nuts & bolts" stuff.
The results of evolutionary trial and error
can look an awful lot like the results of
intelligent design, but if examined, it can't work
any other way, so any "message" except "this
is how to build am amoeba" is unlikely.
If you're looking for a message, the place to
look in the "junk" DNA, (which BTW, by the way
has proved remarkable in is lack of 'drift` over
long periods of time).
Trouble is it's a 'base 4` code and we lack the key.
2007-09-10 08:17:18 · answer #3 · answered by Irv S 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If an amoeba learned to work a telegraph or a ham radio.... I'd agree with you.
However - DNA, while everyone agrees is the blueprints for one creature to create another like itself - hasn't yet been proven to be a natural or unnatural occurrance.
While modifications to DNA happen (and, as we have seen, can be tracked back through time) naturally, that doesn't prove either way that it was *first* created naturally, or by intelligent design, or by any other means.
2007-09-10 09:20:33 · answer #4 · answered by quantumclaustrophobe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its evolution. Do I ought to spell it. yet whilst there are different planets the place evolution happened, there'd be 2 issues for them to be: A. greater probable then not greater primitive then we are and not having touch off their very own international B. Being great civilizations who can harness the skill of stars and could in no way have any fathomable reason for touching Earth.
2016-11-14 21:01:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If they could just say "hello" in plain english or spanish or french or any language understandable to mankind, that would be enough.
2007-09-10 08:01:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would send somthing that can't be mistaken for any thing else I would send the digits of Pi. that would prove that it was out there.
2007-09-10 09:15:07 · answer #7 · answered by Mr. Smith 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If a velcro boot fell from space, I would believe.
2007-09-12 06:17:48 · answer #8 · answered by Josh P 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello! How are you?
2007-09-10 08:19:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ANY message...
2007-09-10 08:00:57 · answer #10 · answered by Rocko Barbella 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋