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'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.