Biological complexity: misfolded protein problems (Introduction)

by dhw, Friday, September 08, 2017, 14:18 (2633 days ago) @ David Turell

There are three posts dealing with the same subject:

DAVID: The biological cell has many moving parts acting at high speed in a liquid environment. If a molecular movement is a split-second off, a mistake can happen. God in His wisdom recognized this obvious problem and put into place the proper corrective mechanisms. Preparing for possible mistakes is perfect designer planning.
dhw: Perfect designer planning would exclude the possibility of mistakes.
DAVID: Experience tells us it is not possible.

So your all-powerful God makes mistakes, and yet his planning is perfect. (See last item.)
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DAVID:(under "3-D DNA packing") […] like a good designer, God recognized the need for backup corrective mechanisms to cover that possibility.
dhw: There is no cure for Down’s syndrome.
DAVID: And there are many others, not as well known. What we have been given has never been completely perfect.

So once again “perfect designer planning” is not perfect. (See last item.)

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DAVID's comment: (Under "Cell division DNA controls") With enough advances in research into cell division and reproduction we might be able tp solve the congenital defects like Down's syndrome, an issue dhw raised today. Again this research demonstrates how complex is our biology has to be. Not by chance.

I agree that it’s not by chance: the complexity has been built up by intelligent combinations of individual units. But the issue I raised is that your God’s designs are riddled with mistakes, and if – as you keep insisting – he is all-powerful and in full control, the logical inference has to be that these are not “mistakes” but weaknesses deliberately built into the system. So here’s a theistic alternative: your God planned a system that would make mistakes, and he gave organisms the means to work out solutions. Some did, some didn’t. Some do, some don’t.