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To: GodGunsGuts
"I’m game. Why don’t you start by demonstrating why random processes plus survival are a better explanation than creation/intelligent design for the origin of the digital code contained in our DNA."

Why, I'm not entirely sure that they are.

Have you any evidence that creation/intelligent design constitutes a better explanation than random processes plus survival for the origin of the digital code contained in our DNA?

I doubt that either is provable at the moment. How would you go about testing these hypotheses to determine which has more relevance to the matter under investigation?

Perhaps you will be willing to stipulate that random processes and selection are responsible for the current digital code in our DNA, and we'll try some recursion analysis to see if these phenomena can be extrapolated backwards a bit.

33 posted on 08/23/2009 9:16:15 PM PDT by NicknamedBob (Oh well. Forewarned is forearmed. I'm up to my elbows in forearms.)
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To: NicknamedBob

==Have you any evidence that creation/intelligent design constitutes a better explanation than random processes plus survival for the origin of the digital code contained in our DNA?

All we have is historical science, which relies on inference to the best explanation to rank multiple competing hypotheses. And since intelligent design is the only known cause of complex, specified, digital
codes, intelligent design is not only the best inference for the existence of DNA, but it is also the only inference that is supported by empirical empirical reality.


35 posted on 08/23/2009 9:28:18 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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