Genome complexity: DNA 3D layer of gene control (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, May 17, 2017, 15:41 (2533 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: I'm delighted you see the miracle. What causes miracles? That brings us to the supernatural, doesn't it?

dhw: No, it doesn’t. Tony tried to play the same silly verbal game. The word miracle can ALSO mean “something very lucky or very good which you did not expect to happen or did not think was possible. It’s a miracle you weren’t killed!” (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English).

Correct. The use of the word miracle has several levels, but your referred to level is a play on the underlying meaning of supernatural. Your word game avoids the underlying import.

DAVID: Of course cells can't think.

dhw: Of course those experts who tell us cells can think are wrong. David knows best.

Those experts cannot tell us the difference: cells are simply following intelligent instructions.

DAVID: Your theories are all an avoidance of considering God as the source, even your 'possibly God-given' allowances which never say God gave the cells intelligently planned instructions, which to me is the logical conclusion.

dhw: I am an agnostic. If I could accept any theory that excludes God, I would be an atheist. The fact that I offer a theory which includes the possibility of God but runs contrary to your personal interpretation of your God’s thinking – an interpretation which is simply riddled with contradictions and anomalies – does not mean I am avoiding considering God as the source. It means I am offering an alternative hypothesis which even you agree fits in with the history of life as we know it. But I can understand why you are so keen to divert attention away from your own illogical dogma by manufacturing a false motive for my hypothetical but logical alternative!

I'm doing everything I can with the facts I present to knock you off your favorite fence. I'm not illogical. Add God and it all works.