So I’ve recently come across another gem of pseudo-scientific efficacy, propounded by apologists who have an impressively shallow understanding of human genetics. This “idea”, evidently spawned by theologians with an elementary grasp of molecular protein and genetic coding, states that DNA is devised by an intelligent designer, basing the “logical” foundation of this breakthrough on the “Argument from Complexity”, and likening DNA, a 4 letter, 20 amino acid, 64 codon protein synthesis, to binary, a two code system, simply because binary was designed, meaning, somehow, that DNA was also “created”. Let us not forget that binary was a coding system devised for programs that are not carbon based life forms, because they lack the necessary constituent for their own coding.

My question is this: Regardless of the unscientific foundation and supremely improbable basis, why, if god were the scientist behind the curtain, manufacturing every 3 billion letter protein sequence to be as unique and individualistic as the organisms in which they reside, why does he allow, or create, a human or animal with defects in their genetic coding? Why are their chromosomal defects? Why are there defective codes in DNA, in cellular mytosis, and the other engines of sexual selection that prevent us ALL from being equally fit, intelligent, and healthy?

AND DON’T TELL ME FREE WILL, or any other apologistic nonsense. The founders of this theory very explicitly stated that “God” makes each and every DNA sequence for every single organism on the planet.

According to this theory, there are only two options: God makes mistakes in coding, disproving an infallible and omnipotent god.

Or, God intentionally makes these minute errors in the order of genetic coding, disproving an omni-benevolent god.

There are NO other alternative explanations to this idea. There are no “Get Out of Logic Free” cards, and no room for free will. If you think there are any others, you misunderstood the question.

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Tony: Fair enough. But, as religion is so familiar with the "infinite regress", your answer creates another question.

What was the process by which "sin" modified our genetic structure, making us succeptible to coding defects? Did "sin", the intangeable, ephemeral CONCEPT that it is, actually infiltrate the human genome and mutate our protein structure? And if it did, would you not think that evidence of such mutation would be reflected in the sequencing? I often see apologists criticizing the so called "short-comings" of scientific knowledge, but genetics is one of our most advance sciences, and we now have the ability to sequence genomes within human DNA so that they will actually S-P-E-L-L out the ancestral lineage for millions of years, hence how we can factually verify our million year old ancestors, such as Homo Habilis and Ergaster.

So again, wouldn’t we know, with the species Homo Sapien Sapien being so young, if there was a large immediate shift in genetic information?

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