Asking of the Designer what we would of any other designer (The atheist delusion)

by whateverist , Saturday, July 30, 2011, 16:42 (4865 days ago) @ dhw

Okay. Thanks for the summary of the earlier discussion. I do think that the transition from inorganic to organic should be almost expected given the necessary conditions, whatever exactly those may turn out to be. In this sense I think it would be common. -As a separate point, once the transition has been made at a location, I'm hypothesizing that the transition from the inorganic to the organic would cease. I'm guessing that once the double helix of DNA had achieved the ability to unzipper and rezipper to form new copies of itself, all the available material in the pre-organic soup would then become utilized as building blocks in that process .. thus cutting off the re-emergence of the organic from the inorganic.-Whether there is any other chemical structure or materials which could serve as a basis for life is unknown of course. It would not surprise me to learn that it is unique. There are other structures that seem to some degree to proliferate such as crystals but they just aren't what we would call life.-Thanks again for the clarification and the summary of the earlier discussion. I have to admit I find the article fairly technical and difficult to penetrate in places.