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To: betty boop

If you think asking what the physical basis of the evolution you say you accept is “stupid” why did you dance around the subject without ever attempting to answer it so often?

Five years of us posting together and you still have no idea what DNA is what it does or how it does it?

It would be nice if you could look outside your self imposed box to see that asking what the physical basis of what is happening in the world is not “stupid”.

That is why creationism advances nothing and leads nowhere. Because asking the question about how things happens is “stupid”.

And in another five years will you still not know about DNA or what the physical component of the evolution you say you accept is, or could be?

Oh well.


253 posted on 03/28/2012 6:17:58 PM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to DC to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: allmendream; Alamo-Girl; exDemMom; YHAOS
Five years of us posting together and you still have no idea what DNA is what it does or how it does it?

Do you know what DNA "IS?"

I know you know what it "DOES"; but that's an entirely different question. Anyone who can read can find out what DNA "does." (exDemMom gives a fine description here.)

It seems you can't get your thinking above the cellular level. To me this looks like an example of reductionism, or the expectation that an analysis of the parts of the system will give you the complete description of that system. Rosen illustrated the problem thusly:

Taking a hammer to a watch ... will give us a spectrum of parts all right; these may be separated and characterized to our heart's content; but only by a miracle will they tell us either how a watch works or how to make one. This is because two things have happened: application of the hammer has lost information about the original articulated watch, and at the same time, it has added irrelevant information about the hammer. What the hammer has given us, then, is not so much a set of parts as a set of artifacts.

In short, all information about the watch's organization principle has been irretrievably lost. Even reconstituted parts cannot give you this.

(I don't know wether you will find this analogy helpful or not.)

You aver that to ask "the question about how things happen is 'stupid'."

Jeepers. All I can say to that is: We are polar opposites on that question.

Oh well.

274 posted on 03/30/2012 8:24:44 AM PDT by betty boop (We are led to believe a lie when we see with, and not through the eye. — William Blake)
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