Code, Information, and Design (Evolution)

by David Turell , Tuesday, March 25, 2008, 01:12 (6086 days ago) @ Matt

"I agree that information is an issue. What carries the information isn't. Since we are all made of energy on an atomic level, we are all made of "information". - Where do we get it? We have identified a plethora of carriers, but have never given a reasonable explanation for the how or where information originates. - 
 However, it begs the question from science... Why are we trying so hard to prove the non-existence of something that isn't there anyway? If an intelligent designer isn't there, we couldn't prove its non-existence. 
 
 It is the right of science in my opinion, to explain away the observable...to take all the mystery and "magic" out of life. If an Intelligent Designer does exist, it would certainly not reveal itself outright. We would just rationalize and explain it away. 
 Science has set a course for its own destruction when and if the empirical evidence finally suggests intelligent design. It's going to be much harder for the smartest people in the world to have to come to grips than the other way around. When and if the evidence suggests intelligent design, would science bend the knee while continuing its efforts to better humanity?" - Matt has provided a very cogent and incisive discussion of the mass of information that is obviously available and at work in nature, and the perverse role science plays in studying it. My own opinion is that the evidence is very strong and getting stronger for intelligent design.