Genome complexity: folding DNA (Introduction)

by David Turell , Monday, December 15, 2014, 00:22 (3632 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: 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).-And so we have reached different end points. One of the major reasons I believe there has to be a conscious planner at the source of the universe and life is exactly the complexity that you and I agree cannot be the result of chance. I don't see that any of your 'alternative explanations' offer any reasonable solution to the conundrum of 'why is there anything'. I've made my choice. For you everything is illogical. So be it.