1 human cell works like a complex factory on a microscopic level.
2007-09-21 15:12:33 · 7 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well... there is no "magic" ooze... the religious believe in magic, scientists do not.
2007-09-21 15:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 4⤋
Good Question!!!!! Here is the same type of question asked by a noted creationist scientist and engineer, Dr. Walt Brown, PhD Mechanical Engineering, MIT:
Please point to a strictly natural process that creates information. What evidence is there that information, such as that in DNA, could ever assemble itself?
Codes are produced only by intelligence, not by natural processes or chance. A code is a set of rules for converting information from one useful form to another. Examples include Morse code and braille. Code makers must simultaneously understand at least two ways of representing information and then establish the rules for converting from one to the other and back again.
The genetic material that controls the physical processes of life is coded information. Also coded are complex and completely different functions: the transmission, translation, correction, and duplication systems, without which the genetic material would be useless, and life would cease. It seems most reasonable that the genetic code, the accompanying transmission, translation, correction, and duplication systems were produced simultaneously in each living organism by an extremely high intelligence.
Likewise, no natural process has ever been observed to produce a program. A program is a planned sequence of steps to accomplish some goal. Computer programs are common examples. Because programs require foresight, they are not produced by chance or natural processes. The information stored in the genetic material of all life is a complex program. Therefore, it appears that an unfathomable intelligence created these genetic programs.
Life contains matter, energy, and information. All isolated systems, including living organisms, have specific, but perishable, amounts of information. No isolated system has ever been shown to increase its information content significantly. Nor do natural processes increase information; they destroy it. Only outside intelligence can significantly increase the information content of an otherwise isolated system.
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To Super Atheist: your attempt is futile. You act like you are intelligent. Yet all you use is evasion. If you are educated which may be the case, I find it hard to believe that you believe that the primordial ooze started all life. You left so many questions unanswered. How did inorganic molecules gain the complexity to become organic? How did the first cell form? How did it reproduce? Why haven't we found any dinosaurs with bird wings? Or any fish with legs? Your evolution requires a lot of faith--blind faith.
2007-09-22 12:51:15 · answer #2 · answered by Deslok of Gammalon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow. What depressing answers.
I for one, obviously from a religious background but go ahead-I can take the heat, am amazed as well at the thought of "intelligent design" creating such closed minded, boring, thoughtless and uncreative individuals as these who were obviously advanced just enough to tap out their opinion onto their "very complex" keyboards. It baffles me that I share a common ancestry with beings that cannot even fathom the possibility that they didn't happen just by chance. That oozing from the slime of a tar pit even seems more realistic to them. Hmm.
You know, my daughter presented me a question the other night. What if monkeys evolved from us and we have it all backwards... Just something to think about.
I like your questions Chi Guy even if I don't always agree, keep them coming.
2007-09-21 23:54:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yet another creationist asking Whodunnit! When will you lot get over the idea that everything that happens has to have an intelligent agent?
No-one builds individual snowflakes, you know, despite their vast complexity. Sometimes things just happen by themselves as a result of natural processes.
It's a characteristic of carbon-based biochemicals that they will form very complex molecules over huge time periods, if the conditions are right. This may be counterintuitive, but that's because you're not used to seeing complexity arise out of simplicity. And you're biased and intellectually myopic.
Forget what your 'common sense' tells you - this is a known phenomenon.
CD
2007-09-21 22:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Unimaginable isn't it? That's the beauty of life - we have brains that can comprehend the magnitude of life - but can not comprehend the miracle of life. We are quick to sluff off what we don't understand to fairy tales and certainty - when "I don't know" is the only honest answer under the sun.
2007-09-21 22:23:36 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 1⤋
On the other hand, there are so many inherent flaws in the design of the human body that one certainly can't believe anyone of intelligence would purposefully design it.
2007-09-21 22:31:08 · answer #6 · answered by OPad 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Who are we to say what is or isn't a complex machine? We humans who only use about 1/10th of our brains?
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2007-09-21 22:21:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋