To Anony Mous
You are wrong in assuming that the only way of creating information
is by intelligence,
Darwin read “Principles of Geology” by Charles Lyell, whose
central methodological principle was. ‘To explain the former changes of the
earth’s surface, by reference to causes now in operation.’ According to Lyell,
our present experience of cause and effect should guide our reasoning about the
causes of past events. Lyell argued that when historical scientist are seeking
to explain events in the past, they should not invoke unknown or exotic causes,
the effects of which we do not know, instead, they should cite causes that are
known from our uniform experience to have the power to produce the effect in
question.
I am using the same methodological principle that is being
used by the Evolutionist. Why am I being denied the same privilege?
In “Reconstructing the Past” – Elliot Sober stated that if
historical scientist can discover an effect for which there is only one know
cause, when the effect is discovered the action of the cause can be
inferred with great
confidence. Sober’s suggests that if scientists can discover an
effect for which there is only one plausible cause, they can infer the presence
or action of that cause in the past with great confidence.
X is necessary to the occurrence of Y = Y exist + Therefore,
X existed.
This argument is logically and valid. A past cause or event
can be established from an affect alone.
Scribes are the only known cause of linguistic inscriptions;
therefore any tablets containing ancient script can infer scribal activity.
Wide spread of volcanic ash will infer a past eruption. Where a particular past cause is known to be
necessary to produce a subsequent effect, the occurrence of ‘the effect is
taken as sufficient to establish the occurrence of the cause.” The only known
cause of information is intelligence.
as a matter of fact, no new information has ever been
created by an intelligent being. The net information in the Universe is zero -
nothing - our Universe exists without any source of information or any producer
of particles.
Webster defines information as ‘the attribute inherent in
and communicated by alternative sequences or arrangements of something that
produces specific effects.’ A block of
binary code in a software program is information. DNA contains alternative
sequences of nucleotide bases that produce a specific effect; therefore DNA
contains information. DNA sequences are improbable and specifically arranged to
perform, this is functional information similar to CAD – CAM.
To your point about biology: All living things communicate
and reproduce using some form of information and we don't consider trees or
frogs intelligent. Now, if frogs and trees can reproduce all by themselves
without requiring any intelligence, why is it so hard to understand that cells
can reproduce without intervention using DNA - you seem to accept that? Or that
RNA can reproduce by itself - since you accept DNA (from single-cell bacteria
to whales) reproduces, you have to accept RNA (viruses) are also able to
reproduce without divine intervention? And since it's been proven and you
accept ribonucleotides to structure and thus form RNA and "reproduce"
without any divine intervention, we have gotten to the end of the 'chain'
without yet requiring an explanation.
Note I am discussing the origin of the information not the
ability to reproduce it.
This is where biology ends and chemistry begins. You
probably have no problem accepting sugars and crystals forming without divine
intervention right, you can see it happening in nature, when it snows. Or that
certain chemical elements can form without divine intervention, you know being
created in stars and in the earth's crust or when heated or exposed (rust) -
there is no god required to make your car rust right? So where exactly do you
need to insert a divine intervention (intelligent design) for life when all
parts of "life" are clearly done all the time in nature without it?
Order {Redundancy} = ABCABCABCABC = NaCl NaCl NaCl NaCl [
Salt crystal]
HHOHHOHHOHHOHHO [snow flake]
{Mere} complexity. = alzntzxbct = random polypeptide or
polymers
{Specified] Complexity = To be or not to be. = Functional
DNA and proteins. [specified and complex information that performs a function].
Note the only molecules that are found anywhere in nature that
exhibit such specified complexity and information is the gene expression system
and the cell’s machinery. Everything else is redundant order or mere
complexity. Living organisms are distinguished by their specified complexity.
Crystals fail to qualify as living because they lack complexity.
