biochemistry contains information (Introduction)

by David Turell , Wednesday, October 24, 2012, 20:50 (4414 days ago)

Where did it come from? How did it get in there?-"The true story: ID does not say 'We don't yet know how life emerged from non-life, therefore an intelligence must have done it.' Rather, it makes a two-fold argument: 1) Neo-Darwinian explanations for the emergence and divergence of life are sorely insufficient in their explanatory power and 2) there are features of nature, such as the specified complexity of the digital information in DNA, that are best explained by intelligent agency. We already know from direct experience how to detect intelligence in other branches of science, so inferring intelligence based on the same type of observed effects is completely reasonable. In scientific practice, we infer the existing cause that is KNOWN to produce the effect in question. Since biochemistry contains information, ID theorists infer that there must be an informer, because there are no other sources of information. Ironically, whenever a materialist says, 'We don't yet know how life emerged from non-life, but one day science will explain it,' they are actually using the Science of the Gaps fallacy."-From a christian source.:-http://hcchristian.wordpress.com/2012/10/24/top-five-myths-christians-and-non-christians-often-believe-about-intelligent-design/