Evolution: as immaterial information (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, June 09, 2022, 16:46 (687 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: The article has nothing to do with cellular intelligence or the Cambrian, doesn’t mention chance or ID or the 410,000 years, or the Silurian gap. Nor does it set out to provide the key to ID, and I am simply analysing some of its statements to explain why I find them confusing. But you don’t even consider the way those statements turn your own into gibberish, even if I bold them. All you are interested in is ID!

DAVID: Of course intelligence translates code. But in a designer theory the translation mechanism is part of the instructions cells automatically follow.

dhw: I don't know why you introduced the term “translate” here and above. Translates what into what? Intelligence interprets and uses information. Do you or do you not agree? And the article is not about designer theory! It is about “Evolution; as immaterial information”, and I have explained why I find it confusing. It is clear from your various statements about life that you have not cottoned onto the authors’ definition of life, which turns your statements into nonsense, as bolded above.

I dumped all the discusson about the article. My intent in presenting it is/was to try and unscramble your brain's view of 'information' as a concept. We both know DNA is coded information. That code MUST be translated into active processes for life to appear. The translation method must exist and be provided for cells to use for life to appear. All the different layers of the genome are active and add contributikon to this process of translation and activation of living processes. None of this is disputable. For life to have started all of this had to be present and working. Design theory simply states the designer provided it.

So, once again, we see that immaterial information runs life. And as life propapgates, the information it carries propagates as life propagates. So the use of the word 'propagates' applies. The information is instructional since it creates living processes the cells produce. Design theory recognizes, as you do, that all of this, from the outside of the cell, looks like intelligent activity, and concludes an intelligetn designer produced it. The flip side is chance appearance of this arrangement is reasonably impossible.