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To: Southack
Can an intelligent process program DNA? If so, then there is more than one game in town...

I can imagine an intelligent process which could create the earth, the sun, and even the whole galaxy. There are numerous science fiction tales along such lines. So what? Wild imaginings don't mean that one has stumbled onto a serious scientific hypothesis. Again I say (and probably for the last time because the earlier statements didn't register at all) you have no evidence for such a designer. All that you have is the undisputed fact that man can design things, but you have no evidence of some creature prior to man who did the designing that you claim was done.

231 posted on 03/04/2002 3:48:00 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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To: PatrickHenry
"I can imagine an intelligent process which could create the earth, the sun, and even the whole galaxy. There are numerous science fiction tales along such lines. So what? Wild imaginings don't mean that one has stumbled onto a serious scientific hypothesis. Again I say (and probably for the last time because the earlier statements didn't register at all) you have no evidence for such a designer. All that you have is the undisputed fact that man can design things, but you have no evidence of some creature prior to man who did the designing that you claim was done."

That's not a valid scientific viewpoint. A scientist needs to ask if a theory is possible, can be falsified, and can be repeated if true.

Can an Intelligent process program DNA? If no, then the theory is falsified. If yes, then the theory is possible. Can it be repeated if true? Gene-splicing says yes.

From this information can we discern any information about the composition of that Intelligent process? Perhaps only that it was/is slightly more clever than Man's current state of technology and knowledge today. The quest for any more conclusions further along those lines would probably all be fruitless due to a lack of data. That seems to be your focus, to point the debate into that fruitless region to distract from your own theory's shortcomings (such as repeatable processes for DNA self-forming in the lab, which Evolution does not have).

233 posted on 03/04/2002 3:59:05 PM PST by Southack
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