Evolution and Creationism theory both assume there was a beginning at some point,the world is big,not bound by the linear construct rational thought trys to force it into.
And for your second point, we can do it because we are have an intelligible mind. Which also suggest an intelligible mind must be at the origin of the DNA code base.
You seem to think one implies he other, yet you give no reason for why. What makes you think intelligence is needed to create DNA? Laws of entropy create DNA naturally.
“In 1964, James Lovelock was among a group of scientists who were requested by NASA to make a theoretical life detection system to look for life on Mars … “What is life, and how
Since then they have recognised that the presence of life increases the rate of entropy gain in the surrounding system. Just using electricity is an easy example.
Yes. Really the only way to lower entropy of a system is to increase universal entropy. Refrigeration is a good example. Lower entropy in the fridge increases it in the home.
The second law doesn't claim that the entropy of any part of a system increases: if it did, ice would never form and vapor would never condense, since both of those processes involve a
you've assumed DNA cannot be created naturally. analogous to saying intelligent people made matches to make fire therefore without intelligent people there cannot be fire.
You’re right it suggests (or even proves) that intelligently designing DNA is one option for how it was first created but does not say that intelligences MUST be the origin of DNA.
Even if we consider that most of the universe is empty space. If one is all powerful you could make a more efficient universe. One infinite plane would be better.
More usable space. Better suited to life. At least better than mostly empty and unlivable space. This is assuming a godly creator who can do create the universe as anything.
Essentially if there was a godly creator they would be a Flat Earther if they were smarter. In the real world though Fat Earthers are wrong, and the globe disproves intelligent design.
Might also be limits? Consider making our world like designing a video game. Could literally anything be designed or would there be some universal limits?
Those benefits work in a universe that is hands off. A creator should have been able to come up with a better system than one that lead to most species becoming extinct.
I agree there are optimizations to be made, but every optimization could break something else. (eg allow FTL, now have to deal with time travel or something)
You assume that DNA is useful without a cell and that it's durable in an aerobic environment. Analogous to saying that if there's a library full of books a reader will magically appear
What?? So this thing is going to build a cell around itself? All the plans in the world mean nothing if you don't have a factory to produce them in the first place.
Just look at the long string of processes the chemists had to go through to make that RNA in the lab. Even then its just white noise and gets destroyed in the presence of oxygen.
We’re also looking through the lens of survivorship bias. We dont know all the organisms that didn’t work out. It is possible there are even more simple self replicating molecules.
& yes everything gets degraded over time. The question is what is the balance between self replicating & degrading? People degrade but not before self replicating.
wonderful animations. *yes people degrade constantly but not to the point they cannot self replicate (an assumption buried in previous mRNA enzyme posts)
Other groups work on how nucleotides & amino acids could be made in early earth conditions. side note: this was done in water in an open container at 42C so there was oxygen.
If you actually read up on evolution it actually works by deactivating some bits of code and activating other bits. Also about the changes to that code over time.
It doesn't have to. We share a lot of DNA with all life on the planet. You can do all that by just turning things on and off, and slow changes to bits over time.
And how does slow changes to bits over time manage to put together incredibly large amount of DNA coding needed to get an organ with a single function as an eye for example?
All changes to these bits are random. But the useful changes get passed on via natural selection. Eventually, eye-like changes form randomly in the DNA code, & are passed on & refined.
Mutations are mostly useless. Look at children of Hiroshima. Small useless arms etc. Even if it was useful one specimen cannot change a whole species. He would have to screw millions.
Ok but each change has to be significantly better. Too such a degree that the existing animals can't compete for survival or mates. If not, the change will die out.
No, this is not true. Simply giving any sort of advantage is enough to encourage genes to be passed on and adopted - they don't have to be competition eliminating changes.
It doesn't always. Often times desirable mutations die out. But since they give an advantage, some genes are naturally more likely to survive and be passed on.
Yes, the mutations have to give a discernable advantage. Mutations does not do that. In the very off chance it does, it doesn't happen often enough to get a foothold in the species.
Well, there's lots of data on evolution, natural selection, and the propagation of genetic mutations in nature. The fossil record is an excellent way to see the process visually.
Like Pilt Down man? That data, even if it did show that, which it doesn't, can be faked. There is huge political and other motivation to do so, that is why I am very sceptical.
Atheism can't exist without evolution. Atheism is needed to justify absolute state control of its subjects. Look at the history of the persecution of religion by the Soviets.
And why is atheism needed to justify absolute state control of subjects? Religion has a long a brutal history of being used as a tool to enforce absolute control over people.
Atheism works better - there's no higher ideal that the state is supposed to be subordinate to. So the State can replace God entirely. More efficient than being merely a middleman.
What do you think Big Brother is?? All knowing, all seeing, all powerful, the arbiter of Truth... If that's not a replacement for God then we have different definitions.
Its Religion that has been abused for propaganda. Its books and authorities that abuse the people. The bible is a hoax that was invented after Religion to control the sheeps.
Look at the history of persecution of anyone who disagreed with them by almost every established religion ever... "Atheism can't exist without evolution"... Why the hell not?
And why is atheism needed to justify absolute state control of subjects? Religion has a long a brutal history of being used as a tool to enforce absolute control over people.
I think it's a lot like biased journalism. Geology is a fun example - any conclusion that looked like a catastrophic worldwide flood was flatly dismissed because, you know why.
There's a reason, for example, that the Rebels in Star Wars are bonded together by faith in the Force. John Paul II went to Poland in '79 and it toppled the USSR. Tyrants hate God.
Yeah, that's a pretty extreme example of a mutation. Yes, most are entirely useless, but natural selection means that the useful ones do get passed on. They are also tiny changes.
Yes. One in thousands or millions. Not enough to displace the existing animals. If one in 10 lions were born with significant increased strength all over the world, yes mabe.
Once these changes happen, they don't just go away... They are passed on to children and spread throughout the population. Thus, minuscule changes propagate themselves and persist.
Also we can show how the eye evolved over time. There is a spectrum of complexity in eyes found in nature. Starting with light sensitive cells to full out telescopic eyes.
No I don't, but you asked for the info, and that is an easy place to find it. That said Cosmos was not TV nonsense. It was knowledge presented by a scientist.
Proper research that refers to sources that you can check etc. Has discovery channel ever presented any criticism to global warming. If they have it is just as a strawman.
I have read a lot of the propaganda against the science. There is nothing behind it. Like that list of "scientists" that don't belive in global warming turns out to be regular people.
Those phD's aren't in a relevant field. Their opinions are worthless. Research and data are what matter. It was not a narrative change. Just that it involves more than than warming.
It can be more complicated then that though. The issue is the excess energy in the system due to an albedo imbalance. The extra energy usually is noticed as more heat, but not always.
That was actually one of the first things to evolve in single celled organisms actually. Mostly so things could move to or from light. Sight actually evolved with the ability to move.
Doh.. single cell organisms do not have a pit eye. I thought this is obvious. SCO can detect light and react to it - spot. More complex eye on a SCO look up warnowiid
I hope you joking. We observe and track those changes. We can see where we had two chromosomes fuse together after we split from Chimps. We can see what use to be ends fused together.
What are you saying there is not an example of? We have observed how mutations to genes in DNA happen. What we have not observed is the natural formation of DNA (or origins of life).
We have created entirely new DNA from scratch ourselves. That is beside the point though. Evolution would be disprove if DNA could just create whole new complex chains in one go.
If evolution would be a slow process we should witness as of RIGHT NOW mid-organs with no functions. There is not a single instance in the whole world showing that.
"Normally, the appendix sits in the lower right abdomen. The function of the appendix is unknown." It doesn't mean it has none because you're too much of an idiot to figure out.
I just listen to people who are experts in the field. Your questions on the issue remind of something Mr. Garston said. "There are no stupid questions. Only stupid people."
I understand science. You are oversimolifying things. I do questions the issues. That is why I know climate change is real. I spent a long time thinking it wasn't.
#1 Everything changes #2 Climate may be warming now But then food for thought. Is it really good or bad that the Earth is warming up. We've been conditioned: Climate change=bad
The issue is the rate of change. We have seen times the climate changed this quickly before. Every time it happened we call a mass extinction event. Yes it is bad.
The cause is the burning of fossil fuels. We can tell that the added CO2 in the atmosphere has lower C14. Because it is millions of years old and already all decayed to C12.
That is actually denier propaganda. Astronomers actually debunked that it isn't caused by solar cycles since those cycles do not at all correlate to the changes in the climate.
Being whatever NOT denier is being science denier. Science is about questioning all the time.When I look at the "proofs" of climate change and evolution I find them rather unconvincing
Probably because you have not looked at all the info, or understand the science on the subject enough to evaluate the data. Science leads to the conclusion that both are true.
If you think one of the top chemists in the world is stupid but can't counter a single one of his claims, I'd say YOU're the one who's dogmatically religious and anti-science.
If he thinks evolution didn't happen then he is just being an old fool. Religion can cloud the mind. Even scientists are not immune to cognitive dissonance sometimes.
That's not what he's arguing. He's saying that the first cell spontaneously creating itself is a miracle beyond any described in the Bible. You're the one with cognitive dissonance.
Ah, he is arguing against a strawman then. That isn't the theory on how it happened. First came RNA, them DNA. Protein structures and then cell walls came later.
What you're describing is a creation myth. I don't believe you watched that video, and I don't believe you ever will because you're afraid of anything that threatens your religion.
I scanned though it. Read what was on his screen a few times. It doesn't matter what he thinks anyway. It matters what all the findings and scientists think. Not one guy.
Lol it doesn't matter which came first! You have to freaking make it in the first place, and then have it not deteriorate until the proverbial monkeys can type shakespeare.
When resources are more scarce selection pressure weeds out the less fit ones. Really cool relationship btw community diversity & speed of evolution to a new environment.
These are very controlled & optimized conditions. Without competition from other species (only between slightly different strains) the bacteria can run free.
Slowly evolving multiple antibiotic resistances & becoming a real problem for hospitals. It sounds like you want an example of a new animal that has like some new arm or something.
Well its most easy to see evolution in bacteria because there are so many of them & they have short generation times. Eg Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
(Eg when oxygen could be used as an electron acceptor). All of a sudden the organisms have all the energy they could want. Under these conditions, the number of mutants increases.
In nature everything is under constant pressure to survive, leaving little room for this “experimentation” between strains. Room is given when there are large shifts.
“totally new set of complex interactions needed for a single function” it lives in an antibiotic that kills the original strain of e.coli. how is that not a new function?
It certainly looks simple because bacteria do it all the time, but saying it is simple is like saying our bodies converting food to energy is simple because we do it every day.
also lets them exist without competing. the high antibiotic strain enjoys its niche without the other. & the low antibiotic can outcompete the high in the no antibiotic environment.
the two different ecoli can now occupy different niches (high and no antibiotic). this sets them on two different evolutionary paths. like the Galapagos finches on different islands.
there is interdependence in the paper. less proofreading > more mutations. mutating the antibiotic target. then increasing growth rate to increase competitiveness.
Not to mention youve moved goal posts “Evolution implies the creation of new codes and we are never witnessing that”. I showed experimental evidence of new codes being observed.
even if those three letters allow you access to a new environment/niche? would be more efficient to only use three letters if three letters will do. why waste a paragraph?
oh ok, getting confused btw the ecoli & RNA. The self replicating RNA a paragraph which could make more soup. One of the simplest examples of something that could be considered alive.
Other papers show evolving new food sources, making new chemicals, increasing growth rates or degradation rates of lignin. How many examples do you need? Are all these simple?
evolution doesn't say fossils will be common. it says that when we find them their age & phenotypes will follow a trend of slowly changing over time (evolving).
Straw-man and deflecting. Skilled arguing. Piltdown was "discovered" 1912. In 1913 it was found to be a hoax, yet it took "scientists" 41 years to admit it was a fraud. Very credible.
Shroud was discovered in the 1300 & they still haven't admitted its fake. 700 years and counting. Whats your point? All scientist are liars? Science is a LIAR sometimes?
People lie. Money talks and bullshit walks. If you question the science you are branded a heretic and all your funding stopped. You lose your job etc. Do your own research.
Well youre right, evolution doesn’t make such a prediction. no wonder you haven’t seen any proof. Evolution isn’t a biological philosophers stone, transmuting all living things.
In bacteria evolution is more of a web because of horizontal gene transfer (bacteria can pick up stray DNA & easily incorporate it even across species).
& species alive today would not be predicted by evolution to change into one another. Chickens & elephants have a common ancestor that likely looks like neither today.
So we just have to wait 41 years after every fossil is discovered until its admitted fake. Then we can stick our head back in the sand & forget about “evilution”.
That is correct but a bunch of scientists going along with the lie and refusing to accept scientific proof of its falseness for 40 years shows they have no integrity and dont look at..
So your point is this deception has continued into the present? That we should never trust scientists? That all other fossils are faked? You can look at fossils yourself,
sci community also uncovered & corrected it. you said solution is to, "Do your own research." I've given you a way to do that & you've avoided it in favor of weaker social arguments.
The fossil records can be faked and the mainstream scientific community will not easily admit to this, as demonstrated. Can you refer me to a experiment that demonstrates this?
"The church" you're referring to is a centralized authority of humans and their loosely assembled minions. You straw man all Christians by knocking down this small cadre.
It wasn’t a ‘cover up’. “scientists increasingly regarded Piltdown as an enigmatic aberration inconsistent with the path of hominid evolution as demonstrated by
fossils found elsewhere.” Limited data is ambiguous. Multiple theories could produce the same data (ie be correct). This hoax (& I assume other data) supported one
Viruses increase the size of DNA in some cases and if the cell is a gamete then this increase in size is inherited. Down syndrome and its equivalents in other species do the same.
...all species. Additionally there are other processes which work on a more granular scale instead of duplicating the whole chromosome: http://tinyurl.com/yayeuk5r
No. I never said that. I said that there are many processes which can make space for more info in the DNA. While this specific process causes DS to humans, it's not always bad for...