‘Can DNA Prove the Existence of an Intelligent Designer?’
Yes.
This question is too modest. The conclusion has been self evident long before the discovery of DNA.
And that is the truth. So often here, in our increasingly declining IQ culture, "not responding" when one is the OP is characterized as "running and hiding".
The answer to this question, to me, has always been an absolute yes.
If there is programming behind biology, then there’s the possibility of programming behind every system in the universe. Obviously the universe’s (macro) programming is beyond our comprehension, the same way we didn’t know about DNA, or understand it, until relatively recently. It may even be beyond our ability to ever observe it. But, if we can find it in other, more “localized” systems, inductive reasoning would point to its existence everywhere.
And if there is programming behind every system in the universe, whether the universe is physical or virtual (doesn’t matter which, to be honest), then the universe is an open, sandbox simulation.
as a life-long computer scientist, systems designer and programmer, as well as a lifelong student of the molecular life sciences, it’s crystal clear that life on earth did NOT arise by flipping an atomic coin an astronomical gazillions of times ...
the intra-cellular nano-machinery and mechanisms are mind-blowingly similar to computing machinery, programmatic data, and principles of data coding, such as modular coding and reuse of code ... it’s simply undeniable that cellular functioning consists of an unimaginably intricate set of very clever machines constructed from organic molecule parts ... and anyone who pretends like that all happened by accident is either an ignorant fool or a liar or both ...
Some “scientists” claim to believe that lightning and cosmic rays struck a primordial soup in ammonia-rich oceans, producing the complex molecules that formed the precursors to life. Others believe that chemical reactions at deep-sea hydrothermal vents gave rise to cell membranes and simple cellular pumps.
In other words, the massively sophisticated molecular machinery of single-cell organisms simply arose spontaneously as fully functional units after bombarding mud puddles with lightening and cosmic rays for a few hundred million years.
And, btw, the current THEORY of evolution is no different than the previous “discredited” 19th century “spontaneous generation” theory that life arose spontaneously from mud puddles. The ONLY difference is the amounts of time involved in the two theories ... plus some extra mumbo-jumbo about lightening, cosmic rays and sea water ...
If you believe that, then you should have no problem at all with believing that a Panasonic CF-54 laptop computer with Windows 7 operating system could arise spontaneously if we simply ground such a bunch of laptop into powder along with a bunch of powered DVD of the Windows Operating system and filled a bunch of beakers with those powders, put some sea water in, and then bombarded the laptop soup in the beakers with lightening for a few billion years while shaking the beakers.
Eventually, we might obtain some resisters and capacitors, but then they would evolve into integrated circuit chips, which would eventually EVOLVE all by themselves into laptops (with operating systems) after being bombarded by cosmic rays for a very long time after the first resisters and capacitors appeared.
If organic life formed by accident in a similar scenario, then certainly there should be no problem with obtaining the laptop and operating system in a like fashion, because after all, the laptop and OS are a few thousand trillion times simpler than, say, a single cell of the Homo Sapiens species. In fact, we should obtain the laptop and OS much much faster because they are so much simpler.
I believe DNA does show an intelligent design. I believe there is FAR more evidence in the universe of intelligent design. One of the factors is how well the laws of the universe respond to mathematics.
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“Can DNA Prove the Existence of an Intelligent Designer?”
Only if you understand the epigenetic effect of consciousness upon the physical body manifestation and the specialization of stem cells.
Only thing is that it's pre-chrstian and doesn't prove chrstianity, so everyone ignores it for philosophical speculation.
“He’s also author of Signature in the Cell, a provocative new book that offers the first comprehensive DNA-based argument for intelligent design.”
It’s not a new book it’s been out for quite a few years. I read it and it’s an excellent book, very persuasive. It’s written from a totally scientific, logical point of view - he doesn’t resort to bible passages to make his case.
His degree is in Philosophy of Science, which analyzes the nature of science itself and its methodology and limits.
I very much recommend it.