DILEMMAS: A Response to DHW (Evolution)

by dhw, Monday, November 10, 2014, 13:50 (3664 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: Great analogy. DNA is a code and the genome runs as a computer program. We understand only a small portion of it so far, but I anticipate extreme complexity will be uncovered which will help explain how the genome creates life and runs its programs. That complexity will require the recognition of design.-The fact that we understand only a small portion so far makes me ask yet again how you can be so sure that the genome is capable of nothing more than minor adaptations. Your prediction is confusing. You say the genome runs as a computer programme, and it (creates life and) runs its programmes. So where did “its programmes” come from? Are you saying God preprogrammed the genome to invent its own programmes? If so, we are back in full force to my inventive mechanism which creates its own innovations. Thank you. Or are you saying God preprogrammed the genome of the first cells to pass on and run a few zillion programmes he himself had inserted into them, such as the three-generation-plus-migration life cycle of the monarch butterfly? You can still have your design, but do you think scientists are more likely to discover the programme for implementing a zillion monarch-like preprogrammed programmes, or a mechanism capable of creating its own programmes?