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To: dheretic
I wasn't trying to prove that it works purely randomly. More that the program can adapt to a new circumstance which is what evolution is about.

We are in complete agreement on the above and in fact, just about everything you said, except your conclusion. However, what donh does not realize, and you did not mention is that the 'plug in' also has to be designed - to fit into the program, in fact, it is another program. It has to 'know' the program it is being plugged into an adjust its workings to it. You will note that all programs that take plug ins have long reference sheets as to how such programs need to be written. So of course, a modifying 'plug in' in programming and in the DNA code would need an intelligent designer itself.

233 posted on 06/30/2002 4:08:05 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: gore3000
a modifying 'plug in' in programming and in the DNA code would need an intelligent designer itself.

You mean, like a retro-virus does, for example.

262 posted on 07/01/2002 3:49:13 PM PDT by donh
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To: gore3000
However, what donh does not realize, and you did not mention is that the 'plug in' also has to be designed

I have asked you before not to put words in my mouth, now I'm asking you not to put thoughts in my head. You haven't the displayed competency for this task. I cannot imagine how you think plug-ins have squat to do with this discussion.

You cannot turn compressing the storage of the DNA into programming by simply re-iterating the assertion until everyone is too exhausted to care. It is not programming; it is not anything clearly analogous to programming in the biological world; and even if it were programming, I still failed to see your proof, or any response to my counterexamples to suggest why I should assume signs of programming prove the existence of a Mighty Programmer.

You have not responded to my post explaining to you why DNA is not a program; you have not responded to my request for an explanation of the immune system in the face of your thesis, and you just go blithly on with this thesis as if you were arguing in a vacuum.

This thrust in your argument can now, I feel, with justification, be regarded as total vacuous blather, which you refuse to defend, except by constant repetition. I believe you have now strained my patience enough for a day. Have a good evening.

263 posted on 07/01/2002 4:00:17 PM PDT by donh
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