How was your DNA written?
Let’s assume that you do not believe in a creator of the universe or animals (including Humans). Let’s also assume that you understand the complex codes of DNA and how they work and reproduce themselves.
If you stumble upon a highly technical manual a million pages thick and written in an efficient elegant code, would you conclude that the book somehow wrote itself? What if the book was so small that you needed a microscope to read it? And what if it contained precise instructions for the manufacture of a self replicating intelligent machine with billions of parts, all of which had to be fitted together at precisely the right time and in the right way?
Would it enter your mind that this book (our DNA) just happened by chance without someone or something to write it?
If so, Why?
Look..it is not my problem that most people commenting can not understand that DNA is a CODE. Yes, it may be a chemical code but it is still a code. Books/paper…Cells/chromosomes are ways of carrying and storing information. This is not rocket science. I asked why you think that it would just write itself..not what you think I should do or where I should go. Grow up for a moment.
14 Responses
Vampie
25 Feb 2010
Pangloss (L̵
25 Feb 2010
If you do not understand the difference between animate and inanimate objects, then I am afraid I will not be able to help you until you take a remedial biology course.
Let me know how that goes.
Edit- you are right, it is not rocket science. It is biology. And I do realize that a book has an author. I also realize that the author had a mother and father. Here’s why your argument fails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/nogod/watchmak.htm
Now instead of telling people to grow up, why don’t you actually read the responses and learn a little something.
Guardian Angel M
25 Feb 2010
-_- you obviously don’t understand natural selection… If you would just please pick up a textbook or at least look at SOME wikipedia articles, which are only like 2 clicks away instead of asking people, you’d probably get somewhere.
Edit: I’ll give you a few keywords: Mutation, Natural Selection, Meiosis.
Talon D
25 Feb 2010
You might conclude that a human’s "book" is not the first edition and it was revised over a long period of time from simpler "books." Ugh. This is a clumsy metaphor…
Zombie
25 Feb 2010
The problem is, DNA doesn’t resemble a technical manual or any other book. It’s chemistry. Maybe you’ve heard of genetic switches? Or maybe not.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=mboc4&part=A1206
Congratulations on your false analogy and appeal to incredulity fallacies. Both are creationist favorites, I know.
¤Blackhoof Bucc
25 Feb 2010
Secret decoder ring.
A Modest Proposa
25 Feb 2010
"would you conclude that the book somehow wrote itself?"
Of course not, because I know from experience that people write books. There is no natural explanation for books besides intelligent design. Where your analogy fails though is that there is an inherent difference in the properties of self-replicating organic materials and dead, compressed, dried wood. You also do not have any prior observation that would ever make you think that DNA is created on a regular basis by intelligence.
To use an example that thunderf00t from Youtube explained quite nicely, it’s like you trying to fit a pebble into a shot glass. You won’t find one that fits perfectly unless you specifically make one for that sole purpose. However, liquids fit perfectly into a shot glass each time. Does that mean liquids have a magical creator that makes them to fit into shot glasses? No, it means there is an inherent difference in the fundamental properties of solids and liquids.
Ouroboro: God of the Gaps is not a science, it is apologetic bullocks meant to reconcile Bronze Age mythology with modern science that so far has done nothing but discredit numerous biblical tales.
capekicks
25 Feb 2010
People write DNA code in the laboratory every day.
Bio tech is a growing field.
It doesnt take a God to do it. Just a college graduate.
orchidmg
25 Feb 2010
My DNA came from my father’s sperm cell and my mother’s egg cell.
Athene
25 Feb 2010
Analogy fail.
Ouroboro
25 Feb 2010
Well I’ve asked this question before, something to like, "How does the tRNA know to go to the mRNA?", and I got an answer like, "It’s too hard to explain in one sitting."; to, "It’s on the breaking edge of micro-biology that the chemicals are either bio-entangled at a quantum level, or they are sending small messages to each other to come to each other.". I understand the ribosomes join them together, but they have to send out some kind of message to get the proper amino acid to come.
On a natural level if DNA can communicate with each other in the quantum world, then that would be an amazing way to understand how natural selection works, and DNA morphs. There are a lot of people researching bio-entanglement. Like a species internet.
It’s really confusing, and there is a lot of room for "god" in science, god as in the brain behind the molecules. The Higgs Boson, etc. Even though the Higgs Boson is more down the lines of Particle Physics and not Biology.
I think the people who can openly deny it are ignorant of their own science they preach.
There are still so many questions left unanswered properly.
Gazoo
25 Feb 2010
Half from my Mommy and half from my Daddy.
Well….actually the MtDNA comes all from Mommy. Most of it is like that. Left over junk from bacteria and viruses. We hardly ever use most all of it.
The Doctor
25 Feb 2010
"What if the book was so small that you needed a microscope to read it? And what if it contained precise instructions for the manufacture of a self replicating intelligent machine with billions of parts, all of which had to be fitted together at precisely the right time and in the right way?" The size of the book is irrelevant. The fact that occasionally DNA is put together wrong (known as a mutation), shows that it isn’t always perfect.
answer man
25 Feb 2010
Complex codes have an author.
Life, DNA, the laws that hold our universe together, etc, etc, just didn’t "happen".


Why are people so interested in how I was conceived?
Fine:
My mummy and my daddy decided to "get it on" and the little sperm fought their way through to the egg and then one sperm combined with the egg and there was a mixture of my mummy’s DNA with my daddy’s DNA to create Vampie’s DNA!
Retain your dinner still?
I couldnt.