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To: PreciousLiberty
“One facet of things the IDers seem to frequently ignore is that DNA looks anything but ‘designed’, from an engineering standpoint.”

Ha, ha, ha. So have you reverse-engineered the complex, non-linear structure of the blueprint of life? Please share how this was accomplished, and how it disproves design. I hope you realize that your statement contradicts the biggest argument made against ID - namely that it is supposedly untestable and therefore unscientific. But you just proposed a test which you claim it failed. Amazing what you accomplished all in one little sentence!

Anti ID folk often do this. They claim ID is not science because it cannot be tested. Then they contradict themselves by saying how evidence refutes ID. You can't have it both ways.

72 posted on 01/18/2008 10:00:36 PM PST by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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To: unlearner

” Ha, ha, ha. So have you reverse-engineered the complex, non-linear structure of the blueprint of life? Please share how this was accomplished, and how it disproves design.”

I’ve not reverse-engineered DNA, the scientific community has. The entire human genome has been mapped, for instance - an astounding feat.

It has not “disproven” design, but it has made it look unlikely by revealing the amount of randomness and entropy in the DNA sequence. It has also revealed the signature of retroviruses that have altered DNA over time - a very long time.

“I hope you realize that your statement contradicts the biggest argument made against ID - namely that it is supposedly untestable and therefore unscientific. But you just proposed a test which you claim it failed. Amazing what you accomplished all in one little sentence!”

It’s amazing what people will read into things when they want to...

So, do you think God created life when he created the universe almost 12 billion years ago, or did he wait 10 billion years as the fossil record seems to indicate?


74 posted on 01/19/2008 4:07:59 AM PST by PreciousLiberty
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