Darwins doubt (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, July 11, 2013, 08:12 (4154 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: An evenhanded review of a new book about the Cambrian explosion. The book appears to use my approach of analyzing science to the best answer from how to why. In this case the issue is where did the information for the DNA code come from?-http://townhall.com/columnists/frankturek/2013/07/09/untitled-n1634815/page/full-Intelligent Design does not explain how these new species came into being. We need to know if a designer or designers created them all individually, or created a mechanism capable of doing its own inventing (our "intelligent cell/genome"), or different forms of intelligence (panpsychist) inexplicably evolved within matter ... as opposed to some form of inexplicable superintelligence that has been around for eternity.
 
We have the same problem with the entry about IncRNA: -DAVID: The lncRNA's seem to work in 3 dimensions. How they arose in such specific locations, and they are precisely positioned, is theorized but really unknown.:-http://www.darwins-god.blogspot.com/2013/07/heres-new-paper-on-long-non-coding-rna.html-Quote: "The findings are not only astonishing, they demolish evolutionary theory." -Which evolutionary theory do they demolish? Common descent and natural selection? Not for me. Gradualism and random mutations? Yes, for me, but they have long been suspect. Evolutionary theory tries to explain 1) the process whereby organisms descend from earlier organisms and survive or perish by natural selection, and 2) how that process actually works physically. Darwin's and everybody else's major problem was and still is 2), and not knowing the answer does not invalidate 1).-Quote: "Did Xist evolve? Perhaps, perhaps not. Who knows what future research will reveal. But from a scientific perspective, the current evidence is abundantly clear. It is astronomically unlikely that Xist, with its amazing capabilities, evolved. The fact that it must have evolved "rapidly" adds an exclamation mark to the finding. An intricate sequence must have evolved with amazing functionality. Those random mutations must have evolved Xist in the right place within the genome. And all this must have happened rapidly, at the right time. The right sequence, the right place, and the right time. When it comes to science, evolutionary theory simply makes no sense."-Some of it makes perfect sense, and once you accept the idea that there is an intelligent and innovative mechanism at work within the cell/genome, it ALL makes sense, even it is still only a theory. However, whichever solution we impose on science, it's going to come up against the same unanswerable question: how did intelligence arise in the first place? If theists and atheists would stop deriding one another's faith, they would realize that their own is just as non-scientific and as nebulous as the faith they are deriding. In other words, when it comes to science, no theory of first cause makes sense, but evolution is NOT a theory of first cause. It is a theory of how the first forms of life (cause unknown) gave rise to new forms.