Genome complexity: folding DNA (Introduction)

by dhw, Sunday, December 14, 2014, 18:02 (3633 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: a video explains how it folds to control gene activation:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dES-ozV65u4-I would like a comment on the video on DNA folding. I feel the complexity of the arrangement belies atheism and agnosticism.-This is clearly going to lead us to our usual dilemma. You and I agree that this complexity cannot be the result of chance. This means that I cannot discount the possible existence of the designer you call God. That is the distinction between the atheist and the agnostic. However, there are alternative explanations which depend on a first cause that is just as inexplicable and irrational as the one you call God. I can only repeat that if you can't explain how first cause energy is so conscious of itself that it can make matter live, reproduce and evolve, how do you expect me to explain how matter can create its own complexities through evolving consciousness? If you go back to the survey, you will see that complexity counts as 10 in its importance, but so do lack of evidence and the illogicality of ALL the basic premises (God, chance, panpsychist evolution).