Intelligent Design Book Cracks Bestseller List at Amazon.com

Evolution News & Views ^ | November 16, 2009 | Robert Crowther

[GodGunsGuts]

Signature in the Cell makes 2009 list of top ten bestselling science books

Today Amazon.com announced their bestselling books of 2009 and Signature in the Cell: DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design (HarperOne) by Dr. Stephen C. Meyer made the top ten in the science category. According to Amazon.com, books on its 2009 list of best sellers are “[r]anked according to customer orders through October. Only books published for the first time in 2009 are eligible.” The book's publisher, HarperOne, reports that the book is entering its fifth printing in as many months, and continues to sell strongly both online and in stores.

“Here we are, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species, a book mistakenly assumed to have killed the design argument in science,” said Robert Crowther, director of communications at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, which is the intelligent design research program directed by Dr. Meyer. “Did Darwin refute the design argument? No. And here’s a book about the science of intelligent design that shows how the design argument is being revived with powerful new arguments relevant to our culture.”

In Signature in the Cell Dr. Meyer shows that the digital code imbedded in DNA points powerfully to a designing intelligence and helps unravel a mystery that Darwin did not address: how did the very first life begin? He weaves together a journey of discovery with an argument for intelligent design and explains how intelligent design can be formulated as a rigorous scientific argument using the very same method of reasoning that Darwin used.

[blackpacific]

After reading the book, I would be in a better place to explain how the digital 3D spatial DNA coding works.

Save yourself the wait, and read the book yourself.

It makes inherent sense to me that genetic information is passed by discrete mathematics, and is not based upon some analog function which can vary greatly depending upon variances in the medium.

It really does not matter if a code is based upon 0-1, true/false, present/notpresent, bump/nobump, it is all binary and thus digital. That is, there is an isomorphism that is one-one and onto which allows one to convert from one space to another.

[Wacka]

In other words, you know nothing about DNA.

[blackpacific]

You are a negative example of what the angels said at Bethlehem.

[Wacka]

Since I am not a bible scholar what did they say?

You said DNA is binary. Show me how it is binary.

[blackpacific]

I already did, but since you are not a mathematician, you did not get it.

You’ll have to open the Bible and see for yourself.

[Wacka]

I’m a molecular biologist that knows what the structure of DNA is. Explain to us how you get a binary code from DNA. Enlighten us with your great mathematical skill.

[blackpacific]

Sounds like you invented DNA?

[Wacka]

If you know about DNA without reading that ID book, tell me how it is binary?
Come on. It is almost two days since I asked you.

[blackpacific]

I already did.

Unless you read and comprehend what the angels said at Bethlehem, and how you are a negative example, I cannot see any point in continuing this conversation.

[Wacka]

What do angles have to to with DNA structure relating to being binary?

You have no idea about the structure of DNA besides what you read in an ID book.
It should be simple to tell me how DNA is binary if it actually was.

The fact is you don’t know anything about what you are talking about.
Can’t back up your point with data, so stop the conversation.

[blackpacific]

I never said the DNA structure was binary, you said that.

You can’t follow a simple homework assignment that would take maybe 5 minutes of mousing, so I can’t help you at this point.

What you are asking me to do would not fit in this forum, as the map of the human genome fills several football fields.

[Wacka]

I never said the DNA structure was binary, you said that. You can’t follow a simple homework assignment that would take maybe 5 minutes of mousing, so I can’t help you at this point. What you are asking me to do would not fit in this forum, as the map of the human genome fills several football fields.

I quote Post #52 on this thread:

===Even a child ought to understand that DNA coding is binary, discrete, and thus digital.

Am I missing something?===

Since each base has a different structure, its coding relies on its structure. How do you get 0s and 1s from 4 bases? If what you said was true was true, you would only need to draw or discuss a short stretch, like a few bases to get your point across.

Since you still haven't, it is obvious you don't know anything about DNA. Have you isolated it, mutated it, put it in bacteria, yeast, and mice or sequenced it? Well, I have.

[blackpacific]

I'm so glad you can read minds, that way I don't have to explain as much. :)

Here is a hint about the sacred scripture quote, which you will still have to look up, because it is good for you. Luke 2:13-14.

The structure of DNA, since it fills 3D space, is by definition analog, having what the Greeks would call extent. But the manner in which the information held in the structure is translated to operating instructions is best understood as binary/discrete/digital.

Knowledge is what is known as a “common good”, being an immaterial quantity, while material objects can only be “private goods”. Thus a gold coin in the possession of one man necessarily means that another man does not have it. Many modern minds (many with PhDs) have the notion that if they know something, somehow that takes away from those around them.

Certainly I need to know more about the structure and function of human DNA, as it is the nexus between the operation of the immaterial upon the material world. But I have a feeling, the more I know about this blueprint, the less I am going to think that I am the measure of all things. No, I think I will be doing what the angels were doing....but I better not spoil your reading assignment.

Happy Thanksgiving! I will once again read the official Thanksgiving proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to my children, and having seen a plaque commemorating the passage of the Lincoln funeral train in Cable, OH just a few days ago, I will read “O Captain My Captain” by Walt Whitman to them as well. God Bless!