Stephen Meyer on Intelligent Design: What is the origin of digital information found in DNA?

http://www.discovery.org Information is what runs the show in biology. The question is what is the source of the digital informaiton found in DNA? Stephen Meyer argues that only intelligence can produce information.

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• Siganture in the Cell
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[MrAquinoflavio]

That id haven't provided an adequate positive account for the origin of life, and thus, be reduced to a gap argumentation.

[MrAquinoflavio]

Furthemore, meyer's methodology should be passible to laghter. We dont go looking for arbitrary causes. Just because geneticists are capable of gene manipulation, we dont invoke humans to explain the phylogentic evolution of species. Similarly, All the ''inteligence'' we know off, is encoded in a functional neuronal network, called ''brain'', and it is not clear wether intelligence can exist independently of one. Unless they provide a justification for this, I think it is pretty safe to say...

[MrAquinoflavio]

What is meyer talking about? We have on biochemical literature:

• increased genetic variety in a population (Lenski 1995; Lenski et al. 1991)

• increased genetic material (Alves et al. 2001; Brown et al. 1998; Hughes and Friedman 2003; Lynch and Conery 2000; Ohta 2003)

• novel genetic material (Knox et al. 1996; Park et al. 1996)

• novel genetically-regulated abilities (Prijambada et al. 1995)

How does that NOT conceptualize functional information meyer is talking about?

[HomoSpaien78]

Hey Neph, I will appreciate it if you have a look at my first video and hear me out. Leave your thoughts, thanks in advance!

[Casshyr]

So what if there is indeed a designer behind it all? All evidence still point towards something that is NOT described by any religions, especially Christianity. I laugh every time people use ideas like ID to support Christianity. No it doesn't, ok?

[699backstab]

This subhuman Stephen Meyer is an enemy of Humanity. He got his paper thrown out of respectable circles. He is a fraud. A scumbag

[lolkaela]

Chemicals, amino acids, and proteins aren't 'digital information.' They can be represented by information to be interpreted and that's how we understand biological science. This is just a semantics game and no better than claiming spontaneous generation to be a legitimate theory. This is not a scientific concept.

[henryporter101]

A hundred years from now,scientific methodology will uncover something about the Universe that we can't possibly imagine now.Scientists working in obscurity will painstakingly discover some new fact about the world.And Christians a hundred years hence will regard this discovery as evidence for god.It's all getting very boring.

[confettibrains]

@confettibrains

^ the existence of these facts are not open to debate, they are observations and empirical data, of which evolution theory is applied to to best explain why those facts occur.

If there was an intelligent designer, I don't see why there would be so many indicators of slow and chaotic creation, unless the supernatural entity designer is lazy and so made humans by jerryrigging two ape chromosomes together at the telomeres and copying/deletion errors between genes

[confettibrains]

@disquisition73

please explain shared ERV insertions between distinct but related species, accurate predictions made by molecular phylogenetics, biogeography (species found in strata age and locations at predicted evolutionary origins), fusion of 2 ape chromosomes into 1 human chromosome, human embryonic stages that show vestigial gene expression of amphibians, or why all living species can be traced back to a predecessor (there are no genetically novel organisms)?