This week we see the clear fingerprint of design when we look at the most complex programming ever discovered; you!  God loves us so much, he wrote the code! “DNA is like a computer program, but far, far more advanced than any software we’ve ever created.”  Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1996, Boulder “What is it about these two patterns that indicates the activity of an intelligence, whereas other patterns…do not?  The key concept is that of “independence”.  I define a specification as a match between an event and an independently given pattern.  Events that are both highly complex and specified (that is, that match an independently given pattern) indicate design.”  Science and Evidence for Design in the Universe – page 29 – William Dembski “When Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA, they made a shocking discovery.  DNA could store information in the form of a four-character digital code.  Their structural model of DNA showed that strings of precisely sequenced chemical subunits called “nucleotide bases” – affixed along the interior of the DNA double-helix backbone – could store and transmit information.”  The Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Pg 165 “The [anthropic-design argument] and what it points to is of such an order of certainty that in any other sphere of science, it would be regarded as settled.  To insist otherwise is like insisting that Shakespeare was not written by Shakespeare because it might have been written by a billion monkeys sitting at a billion keyboards typing for a billion years.  So it might.  But the sight of scientific athesists clutching at such desperate straws has put new spring in the step of theists.”  Clifford Longley, Focusing pg 10  “The standard neo-Darwinian evolutionary mechanism comprises (1) natural selection and/or (2) genetic drift acting on (3) adaptively random genetic variations and mutations.  As conceived from Darwin to the present, natural selection “selects,” or acts to preserve, those random variations that confer a fitness or functional advantage upon the organisms that possess them.  But it “selects” only after such advantageous variations or mutations have arisen.  Thus, selection does not cause novel variations; rather it sifts what is delivered to it by the random changes (i.e. mutations) that do cause variations…All this means that natural selection does nothing to help generate functional DNA base (or amino-acid) sequences, that is, new genetic information.  It can only preserve such sequences (if they confer a functional advantage) once they have originated.”  Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Page 323 “The origin of life was the chemical event, or series of events, whereby the vital conditions for natural selection first came about.  The major ingredient was heredity, either DNA or (more probably) something that copies like DNA but less accurately, perhaps the related molecule RNA.  Once the vital ingredient – some kind of genetic molecule – is in place, true Darwinian natural selection can follow, and complex life emerges as the eventual consequence.  But the spontaneous arising by chance of the first hereditary molecule strikes many as improbable.  Maybe it is – very very improbable…”  Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

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