Junk DNA: goodbye!: Review article (Introduction)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Saturday, March 14, 2015, 21:00 (3542 days ago) @ dhw

DHW: But from that initial step, once cells reproduced themselves and were able to combine and learn from one another (no more absurd than eternal, unsourced energy already knowing everything there is to know), the majority of your factors automatically come into play. -That 'initial step' is a few trillion 'initial steps' totally disregarded, each of which that had to happen 'just so', each of which had to happen a few trillion times. -> 
>DHW: I'd better repeat that I am not championing atheism, and my intelligent cell hypothesis can also be viewed theistically. I am simply explaining my agnosticism, which in discussions with you and David inevitably entails putting my own case for atheism.-That would be because you are. And you are doing it in much the same fashion that Atheists do. You are trivializing that "initial step", and trivializing the fact that it would have had to to happen a tremendous number of times both consecutively and concurrently in order for that initial step to have occurred. And you are trivializing the absurd number of things that aren't subject to evolutionary trial and error, such as the "just so" laws of physics and the "just so" location of the planet and the a whole slew of other "just so" parameters, none of which are even remotely possible statistically and are wholly unaffected by evolution.

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What is the purpose of living? How about, 'to reduce needless suffering. It seems to me to be a worthy purpose.