Re: Op-Ed: DNA Evidence of an Intelligent Designer

Not being an expert in either evolution or ID I'd say

Evolution 9 - Intelligent Design 1

I declare the winner Evolution


Jason Spaceman wrote:
From the article:
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By Tom Ashby

A good number of scientists from various scientific fields are
discovering astonishing evidence that strongly supports intelligent
design.

According to the April, 1999 issue of Insight magazine, recent
discoveries are revolutionizing the way objective minded scientists
are now looking at nature. They are coming across data in their
laboratories that can no longer be explained by the standard model of
Darwinian evolution.

"Discoveries in mathematics and biology are making way for Design and
a Designer," says chemist Charles Thaxton, coauthor of the book The
Mystery of Life's Origin.

According to Insight, Thaxton's argument is that the DNA molecule, the
basis of life, is a message. It's not like a message; it is the
message. We humans know from experience, that when there's a message,
an intelligence created that message. No other explanation can account
for the existence of the message.

Bill Gates describes DNA as being like a software program, except much
more complex than any program ever devised. That is not an
overstatement since it is a well known fact that human DNA contains
more organized information than the largest set of encyclopedias ever
in print.

Thus the implication is clear that DNA, a message containing highly
detailed information, was produced by intelligent design. There is no
better explanation for the origin and existence of that information.
The only alternative offered requires an inconceivable leap from
undirected non-living matter to the information-bearing properties of
DNA -- an unacceptable alternative.

The meaning that evolution has long held is a process whereby life
arose from non-living matter and developed entirely by natural means.
The whole idea of naturalism is the self-sufficiency of nature.

However, science itself need not operate under that restriction.
Scientific exploration is not limited to the best "naturalistic"
explanation, but rather to the best explanation, period.
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J. Spaceman

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