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There is no "missing link" in human evolution
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I just got back from south florida where I debated a lot of people about religion and ran into an alarmingly large number of people who don't believe in evolution at all. What many of them pointed out as evidence for intelligent design was a "missing link" between the other apes we see today and the only surviving member of the genus homo. It took 10 minutes for me to show them how there is no missing link.
All I did was simply introduce them to the now extinct members of the Homo Genus. The most widely known of these IMO are homo habilis, homo erectus and Neanderthals. There are many other extinct human like members from the genus homo.
It only looks like there is a "missing link" in the evolution of human beings because many of the species we evolved from are now extinct. How did the first life form, form on earth I have no clue. However it's easy to see how human beings aren't as mysterious as we think we are. We are not separate from nature we are apart of nature and sitting down to study our evolutionary path simply in the last 10 million years can open your eyes to near irrefutable evidence of where human beings came from.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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my universal connection to the cosmos and the divine is through the holy spirit. Through God and Jesus Christ, I dont know where you came from.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: sprinkles]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: sprinkles]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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Explain the Cambrian explosion. Also, Darwin had a nifty little test in Origins of Species that was the test of irreducible complexity. By his own test, his theory breaks down. Along those same lines, the complexity and "intelligence" of DNA also points to a Creator. Anytime we find coded information, the source is always an intelligence. Thats exactly what we find in DNA, coded information. It requires far more faith to believe all of this spontaneously came into being than it does to believe in an intelligent designer or God.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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I believe in some sort of super cosmic higher intelligence, I like the term 'The All'. But I also agreed with Cog's op.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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Cognitive_Shift said: I just got back from south florida where I debated a lot of people about religion and ran into an alarmingly large number of people who don't believe in evolution at all.
right till they or their kids need genetic therapy for a disease. or someone they know gets exonerated by DNA evidence; or they need an antibiotic, but 'their' disease, has bacteria that have developed antibiotic resistance. Or they realize their food is mostly hybrids and GMOs. etc.
"alarmingly large number of people" unfortunately alarming - but no longer surprising IQ is on bell curve, so half of folks are below average, and average is not so good. Then TV, religion, media, video games, etc. dumb folks down further, and much education is geared toward passing tests - not developing critical thinking skills. Lastly, the consumer society tends to emphasize a set of qualities ad values, which are not the most important. If our values had proper priorities, rationality would get much greater emphasis.
So we have this result:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jesus%2C+dinosaur+theme+park&t=h_&iax=1&ia=images
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: laughingdog]
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lmfao what the fuck is that.... Jesus Dinosaur theme Park , wow.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Withinity]
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"WTF is That?"
indeed
only in the "greatest country on earth" as our politicians never tire of telling us
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: laughingdog]
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what made this country great is no more.
people only borrowed money when they absolutley had to, and they HATED doing it. now everything is bought on credit and promise to pay in the future.
people loved God. not so much anymore.
Family values went down the shitter.
Rampant immorality
We chose money over morals daily.
Fuck this shithole I call Amexica. get me the fuck out of here. better yet come quickly Jesus.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: sprinkles]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: sprinkles]
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I find extensive magic beauty and wonder in the natural order. I don't no stupid simple religion to explain existence and my place in it. I like osho because their is something simple in the way he explain being. But he was also a loony for example implying he was the second coming of Buddha. Plus he started a movement which is stupid and dangerous.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Aiko Aiko] 1
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Aiko Aiko said: Explain the Cambrian explosion. Also, Darwin had a nifty little test in Origins of Species that was the test of irreducible complexity. By his own test, his theory breaks down. Along those same lines, the complexity and "intelligence" of DNA also points to a Creator. Anytime we find coded information, the source is always an intelligence. Thats exactly what we find in DNA, coded information. It requires far more faith to believe all of this spontaneously came into being than it does to believe in an intelligent designer or God.
this is so ridiculous dna code does not mean code as in you take linguistic meaning and code it into a cypher and then decypher that code and see the original meaning.
dna nucleotide sequences can be expressed into peptide sequences without ever having been coded from those sequences. there is no thing behind it except evolution from simpler forms. this may be too hard to understand, but the people who work with this know they are not working with a cypher. It is OK not to know or not to understand, but what you are saying has no kernel of science to it.
You should be advised that to repeat it is dumb.
dumb people should not show off how stupid they are.
DNA was not coded, it evolved and accumulated, the results, that did not die before mating and procreating, persist in future generations.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
#23668864 - 09/22/16 05:51 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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They think some form of memory may be encoded in DNA.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: They think some form of memory may be encoded in DNA.
By 1975 they stopped taking that notion seriously, No transduction from experience into dna sequences or rna sequences happens, no storage exists for such a thing and no player exists for such a thing DNA or RNA sequences are not the medium for storing memory of any kind. they are only created by copying, they are only copied from eachother. nothing gets in between except for destructive accidents like heat or radiation, or chemical disruption. nothing writes the sequences memory is not related to it.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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Morel Guy said: They think some form of memory may be encoded in DNA.
By 1975 they stopped taking that notion seriously, No transduction from experience into dna sequences or rna sequences happens, no storage exists for such a thing and no player exists for such a thing DNA or RNA sequences are not the medium for storing memory of any kind. they are only created by copying, they are only copied from eachother. nothing gets in between except for destructive accidents like heat or radiation, or chemical disruption. nothing writes the sequences memory is not related to it.
Mutations occurs with male sperm as aging occurs. Old men having kids alters future generations. My Dad's dad was about 40 when my dad was born and my Dad was 40 when I was born.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: sprinkles]
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sprinkles said: what made this country great is no more.
people only borrowed money when they absolutley had to, and they HATED doing it. now everything is bought on credit and promise to pay in the future.
people loved God. not so much anymore.
Family values went down the shitter.
Rampant immorality
We chose money over morals daily.
Fuck this shithole I call Amexica. get me the fuck out of here. better yet come quickly Jesus.
I think people used to fear god more then they loved him but that's beside the point. While we no longer live in the 1950's highschool text book version of america, it's still one of the best places to live on earth. Take a trip to south america or asia and come back to the USA and you'll be grateful kids don't walk around with assless pants and shit in the street when nature calls.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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lol done.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: They think some form of memory may be encoded in DNA.
By 1975 they stopped taking that notion seriously, No transduction from experience into dna sequences or rna sequences happens, no storage exists for such a thing and no player exists for such a thing DNA or RNA sequences are not the medium for storing memory of any kind. they are only created by copying, they are only copied from eachother. nothing gets in between except for destructive accidents like heat or radiation, or chemical disruption. nothing writes the sequences memory is not related to it.
Mutations occurs with male sperm as aging occurs. Old men having kids alters future generations. My Dad's dad was about 40 when my dad was born and my Dad was 40 when I was born.
what makes old men's sperm mutate? (answer: heat radiation or chemical disruption) you didn't think it was an example of intelligence altering DNA content of sperm and influencing memory of descendants did you?
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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I do not know what it is, but it increases the likelihood that the kid will grow up to break from reality. No other mutations are known. No physical mutations other than neurological. Not a lot is known by me as to what roles genes turning on and off in the brain play.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Morel Guy]
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Morel Guy said: I do not know what it is, but it increases the likelihood that the kid will grow up to break from reality. No other mutations are known. No physical mutations other than neurological. Not a lot is known by me as to what roles genes turning on and off in the brain play.
as far as mental ability and DNA:
you can inherit more or less ability to hold things in mind while doing other stuff.
that includes the number of different ideas, as well as the duration you can keep them intact or sustained in mind while doing other things (or doing nothing) - cerebrum.
you can inherit more or less emotional volatility - midbrain, ganglia, amygdala and hypothalamus
you can inherit more or less acuity of your senses.
you also can inherit more or less sense of timing and coordination.
Aside from that all aspects of your body are reflected in your mind so the greater or lesser vitality of each part or system also affects your mind
these are all inheritable as characteristics of structures in the brain.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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Point taken. I have never held anyone else's memories.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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redgreenvines said: … dna code does not mean code as in you take linguistic meaning and code it into a cypher and then decypher that code and see the original meaning.
dna nucleotide sequences can be expressed into peptide sequences without ever having been coded from those sequences. …
very interesting & important point
as I understand it:
sometimes ‘blueprint’ or ‘recipe’ are used as metaphors for DNA ‘code’
but perhaps, the file that goes to a 3-D printer, or a cookie cutter, are better metaphors.
DNA is a collection of templates, other nanoscale molecules use to make proteins, and these proteins are used by various other organic molecules in the cell to function as components in multiple ongoing processes.
We seem to often view, the world as being simple: As in: ‘I wanted a soda so I drove to the store and bought one and went home and drank it.’ But as we know, from say the study of ecology, everything is effecting everything at once, without there being a controlling agent.
Finding meaning make sense when we view the world as simple, and look for the motivations of an agent. We see this in detective stories, or entire movies that are based on someone getting revenge.
But when we look at the real complexity of the natural world, say for example: animal population cycles, we find no central agent and no plot or goal that achieves a unique climax and thus no meaning, (only a repetitious cycle).
Consider this from wiki: “A population cycle in zoology is a phenomenon where populations rise and fall over a predictable period of time. There are some species where population numbers have reasonably predictable patterns of change … There are a number of factors which influence population change such as availability of food, predators, diseases and climate.”
So life is (always) multiple processes that are cyclic and interactive and mutually interdependent. DNA is not like an orchestra conductor (who can make some decisions of emphasis), or even the music score, for classical music (which predicts an outcome). It, does not have a power of it’s own, rather it exists in a the very energetic environment of the cell, where it is used.
It seems to me Richard Dawkins’s idea of the selfish gene although, it dethrones the individual (animal) as the protagonist in evolution, still hangs onto the notion of a self or agent, though it has been reduced in size to the nanoscale.
So I think it’s not just that the idea of evolution is difficult for some theisticly inclined individuals to get their heads around, I think the notion of selfless activity that is ordered and patterned is non intuitive, like the ‘theory of relativity’ is for most people, (& perhaps even Dawkins, depending on how seriously ’selfish’ is taken).
So we may look at the cosmos and see spiral galaxies, and feel awe struck at cosmic order, and forget that when we flush a toilet, or stir milk in our tea or coffee, the same pattern appears.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: laughingdog]
#23672216 - 09/23/16 08:44 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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>So we may look at the cosmos and see spiral galaxies, and feel awe struck at cosmic order, and forget that when we flush a toilet, or stir milk in our tea or coffee, the same pattern appears.
Nice post, and I agree with a lot of it.
But the person flushing the toilet has intelligence. Is some thing flushing the spiraling galaxy? Take that metaphor however you will.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Hobozen]
#23672312 - 09/23/16 09:22 PM (7 years, 4 months ago) |
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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Easier said than done!
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Cognitive_Shift]
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Cognitive_Shift said: I just got back from south florida where I debated a lot of people about religion and ran into an alarmingly large number of people who don't believe in evolution at all. What many of them pointed out as evidence for intelligent design was a "missing link" between the other apes we see today and the only surviving member of the genus homo. It took 10 minutes for me to show them how there is no missing link.
All I did was simply introduce them to the now extinct members of the Homo Genus. The most widely known of these IMO are homo habilis, homo erectus and Neanderthals. There are many other extinct human like members from the genus homo.
It only looks like there is a "missing link" in the evolution of human beings because many of the species we evolved from are now extinct. How did the first life form, form on earth I have no clue. However it's easy to see how human beings aren't as mysterious as we think we are. We are not separate from nature we are apart of nature and sitting down to study our evolutionary path simply in the last 10 million years can open your eyes to near irrefutable evidence of where human beings came from.
This makes sense to me. I also liked Redgreenvines comments, but some of them were beyond my range of knowledge.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Brian Jones]
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If there is no God, how come you can trace the human genome back to one male, and one female?
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Shroom_Goddess]
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Because it's hard to find every single link in evolution way back when asexual reproduction occurred? A lot of geological events have occurred and it is hard for evidence to preserved to begin with.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Morel Guy]
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I think as a philosophical idea...the notion will come from any attachment you have to that idea necessarily..so it could ultimately rest on you being the missing link..and than asking your self if society wants anything more from me..that could be called a missing link as well..because its something that you might be able to do for the sake of community..which is an active role in evolution..
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Shroom_Goddess]
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Shroom_Goddess said: If there is no God, how come you can trace the human genome back to one male, and one female?
Who says you can?
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: redgreenvines]
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Aiko Aiko said: Explain the Cambrian explosion. Also, Darwin had a nifty little test in Origins of Species that was the test of irreducible complexity. By his own test, his theory breaks down. Along those same lines, the complexity and "intelligence" of DNA also points to a Creator. Anytime we find coded information, the source is always an intelligence. Thats exactly what we find in DNA, coded information. It requires far more faith to believe all of this spontaneously came into being than it does to believe in an intelligent designer or God.
this is so ridiculous dna code does not mean code as in you take linguistic meaning and code it into a cypher and then decypher that code and see the original meaning.
dna nucleotide sequences can be expressed into peptide sequences without ever having been coded from those sequences. there is no thing behind it except evolution from simpler forms. this may be too hard to understand, but the people who work with this know they are not working with a cypher. It is OK not to know or not to understand, but what you are saying has no kernel of science to it.
You should be advised that to repeat it is dumb.
dumb people should not show off how stupid they are.
DNA was not coded, it evolved and accumulated, the results, that did not die before mating and procreating, persist in future generations.
So since Im so dumb, I found a really dumb article that totally obliterates your argument. You are trying to make a case for the “information metaphor falsehood.”
This is empty name-calling, not science. No one who knows the subject can deny that the ‘protein code’ in DNA (the amino acid coding regions, often simply called the ‘genetic code’), together with its cellular support mechanisms, constitutes a sophisticated information storage, retrieval and processing system. To call it a “metaphor” means that it only ‘looks like’ information and information processing but is not really so. This is blatantly false. The symbolic structure and narrative sequence dependence of the protein code is exactly parallel to the way that the English language works in our exchange in this email. The words that I write here have symbolic meanings that you can look up in a dictionary, and I have strung them together in a narrative sequence to tell you a story about biological information. The protein code has symbolic meanings that a cell (and you) can look up in a ‘dictionary’ of the protein code, and they are strung together in sequences that have meaning for the workings of the cell. This is true information storage, retrieval, and processing, and no educated person today should be allowed to deny it. To highlight the technical accuracy of this point, the information content of DNA sequences, and of the 3-dimensional proteins that are made from them, can be measured using the Shannon method, as information expert Hubert Yockey showed in his book Information Theory, Evolution, and the Origin of Life, a review of which can be found here: Great minds on the origin of life (and the Shannon method can only measure a tiny fraction of the biologically useful information in DNA, as illustrated by Dr Rob Carter).
He claims that the creationist argument is “overly simplistic” and therefore false, because it ignores the 3-dimensional structure and complex interactions of biomolecules. This is a ludicrously false argument. The author is trying to deny the “simple” challenge of the protein code by saying that cells function in a far more complex manner. This is nothing more than an attempt at bluff. It is similar to the argument used by molecular biologists who studied the way in which bacteria build their motorized flagella and concluded that it was so complex that it could not have been intelligently designed. Surely, they argued, an intelligent designer would have created a simpler system! Materialists cannot explain the “simple” protein code in terms of atoms and molecules (matter), so they certainly cannot explain the more complex interactions that occur in whole cells just by saying “it’s more complex than that.” The author is trying to defeat you by hitting you with a weapon that is not in his armoury!
He claims that DNA is not a causative agent or “set of directions”. This likewise is false. DNA never does anything on its own. It is an information storage molecule, nothing more. It only ever functions in the context of a cell where there are very complex molecular mechanisms in place for retrieving the stored information and putting it to use in the life cycle of the cell. The cell-with-its-DNA is most certainly a causative agent, and it does indeed carry a “set of directions”. Every organism that ever lived has to pass through a single-cell stage during reproduction. That single cell is the cause of its offspring as surely as the Earth’s rotation causes our day/night cycle of sunlight and darkness. And every cell contains a hierarchical set of directions for producing and maintaining its offspring. In the case of humans, the first level of control turns the first single cell of the offspring into a mass of daughter cells that know where the head, tail, right, left, back and front of the final baby will be. The second level of control develops the arms, legs, head, spine and internal organs in the specified places. The third level of control produces the detailed characteristics of that particular individual (e.g. skin, hair, and eye colour, height, weight, gender etc.). Eric Davidson’s (evolutionary) book The Regulatory Genome, 2006, was the first to describe this hierarchical system of gene regulation. He says it was not designed. This is an empty claim based upon deliberate ignorance of the evidence for design. He was not there when life began so he has no authority on which to deny the existence of a designer when there is so much evidence for design.
He says it is the product of mutation and evolution. This is not logically possible because evolution via natural selection can only begin to occur if a population of living-cells-with-their-DNA already exists. The evolution of organisms cannot logically explain the origin of organisms any more than the ‘evolution’ of human language can explain the origin of humans or human language. It is not physically possible either because the rate of mutation is so great that it is degrading the genomes of all multi-celled organisms on earth to inevitable extinction on alarmingly short time scales (Please see Mutations: evolution’s engine becomes evolution’s end! which illustrates this point).
He says it is “a template which functions as heredity material enabling and regulating RNA synthesis.” This is a description, not an explanation. It is a bit like offering the following statement as an explanation for the origin of a car engine: “it’s there to make the wheels go around”. Explanation requires very much more argument and evidence than description does.
The author of this piece has something to say only because he is ignorant of the science and ignorant of the structure of logical explanations.
The important point is this: biological information is an extremely complex subject that no one fully understands. Materialists do not understand it and they cannot explain the origin of the simplest part of it (the protein code on DNA) so they certainly cannot explain the whole of it by saying that “it is more complex than that”. That is not an explanation, it is just a description.
Here is a story about a surgeon and an engineer that nicely illustrates the complexity of biology. The engineer said to the surgeon “Your job is quite similar to mine. In my job, people have problems with their machines, they bring them to me, I open them up and have a look inside, see what the problem is and fix it, then close them up again. In your job, people have problems with their bodies, so they come to you, you open them up, have a look inside to see what’s wrong, you fix it, and close them up again.” The surgeon thought for a while and then he replied “Yes, I agree on the similarity, but there is also a very big difference. I do the job on my patients with their ‘engine’ running.” This shows how much more complex life is than machines are. And machines are more complex than the atoms and molecules that they are made from. Materialists only have atoms and molecules to explain their world. They cannot explain machines without reference to design, so they certainly cannot explain the much more complex life. An article of mine Life’s irreducible structure—Part 1: autopoiesis illustrates the point if you are interested.
And a nod to irreducible complexity...
Information storage, retrieval and processing is a unique characteristic of life. It requires a symbolic association between items in a code (e.g. an English dictionary, a binary computer code, or a DNA-amino acid ‘dictionary’) together with a language processing system (e.g. human communication, computer software generation, cell function) that can interpret the code via the symbolic associations and carry out work as a result. Information can never be meaningfully studied in isolation; it must always be seen in the context of its language processing system and the work module that this is in turn connected with (and this is the reason that Shannon information is an inadequate measure of biological information). An article by James Shapiro, a world leading microbiologist and anti-creationist, entitled Bacteria are small but not stupid;1 illustrates some of the points I have made here, and highlights the ignorance of the author of the writing that you quoted.
Taken from here http://creation.com/information-metaphor-dna
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Aiko Aiko] 1
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I didn't read any of that garbage, but your source is ludicrous. Creation.com is not a legitimate academic source.
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: DividedQuantum]
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Of course not
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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Re: There is no "missing link" in human evolution [Re: Aiko Aiko]
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Aiko Aiko said: ... the complexity and "intelligence" of DNA also points to a Creator...
there is no end to stupidity
and there is no end to blind insecurity that doesn't trust itself.
the bird has no need to justify it's song
the lioness hunting, hires no track and field coach.
every healthy 2-4 year old, when told God made everything, asks: "Who made God?" YOU CAN"T EXPLAIN CAUSATION (of anything) BY DENYING CAUSATION !!! If one 'thing' can create itself, 'anything' can create itself, and hence needs no external creator!
How do folks get so stupid with age and forget what they knew intuitively when they were toddlers? Now there's a question for God.
There maybe a sacred dimension, but to be so full of doubt, due to lack of experiencing it, that one attempts to prove it continually thru faulty logic, is an effort that will never lead to actually experiencing it, and hence can only lead to a continued unconscious frustration in those who are stuck in this modality.
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