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Now I'm confused. Are you competent to judge the scientific issues or not? There's really not a lot of point to answering your scientific questions, only to have the answers rejected because you aren't a scientist.
Just put your answers in a way that anyone without specific training in the relevant discipline could understand.
As an example, a language has specified complexity. For instance I could write a sequence of letters like "ewhe daeahttrh tisot yo" and it wouldn't mean anything, but if I rearranged the letters to this, "the weather is hot today" it would have meaning to someone who understands English. The second sequence of letters convey information, but they are not part of it. I could have written the sequence of letters in chalk on a blackboard, but the message would only exist until I wiped the chalk off the board. The chalk would still exist but the message would be lost. Notice also that the message requires knowledge of the code, in this case English, to discipher it. Life contains this type of information and in vast quantities, so where did it come from, except from a mind like the Christian God?
Maybe that's because they are blind to the obvious. It's interesting to note that if the SETI project had detected a miniscule fraction of the specified complexity of life in one of the radio waves from space, there would have been a huge publicity event declaring they had found evidence of intelligence in outer space and yet when scientists look down their microscopes at the massive complexity of living things they say that no intelligence was necesary to create it. Don't you find that rather odd? Perhaps that's what Jesus was alluding to when He uttered these words,
Well, for every claim by scientists who propose that the evidence for evolution is everywhere and irrefutable, there are just as many claims by creation scientists that it's not. For instance:-
I believe that God is ultimately in control of the processes that led to humanity. Whether that involved a specific plan to produce humans, and whether it involved randomness, are questions beyond my ken.
That's exactly what I did in the post about genetic evidence for common descent. You blew it off, saying you weren't a scientist and weren't concerned with the fine details. Either you care about the evidence or you don't. Which is it?
If that's what you mean by specified complexity, then there is none in DNA. There is meaning to DNA sequences and no interpreter -- just chemistry. There is no message that exists apart from the physical molecules.
I think you will find that there is more to it that that, much more.
If that's really the case, why do the natural chemical reactions only take over once life has left the body?
I've already provided links to show that there is just as much difference of opinion about your common descent thingy i.e., whether it's real or imagined (depending on whether you take evolution or special creation as your starting point). So no answers to my questions - that's what I thought.
