God and DNA

Could God have designed DNA? In animation and pictures I show how God has a lot of explaining to do. WARNING: this video contains graphic images of genetic disorders.

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[DAK4Blizzard]

Another (subtle) point against intelligent design: If intelligent design is at work, we would have 6 fingers to count on each hand, not 5. 6 and 12 are more logical numbers to base a counting system on than 5 and 10.

[AmauryPenseur]

Sorry, it's a bit harder to express what I mean in English... I can not explain this in a few posts. It's more complicated than that.

[AmauryPenseur]

That's true, but yours not believing in god also affects people: positively and negatively. Everything works like that.

I, for one, don't trust a lot any more. Commercial interests have their grips on everything. Science is completely commercialised, scientific studies are being bought and manipulated. Natural sciences and technology I only see as tools for the consumption-society now. I only care for mathematics and humanities. Social sciences and natural sciences are part of another world.

[AmauryPenseur]

The means to an end don't really matter. It's the gratification part that counts in the end.

You can also say that the natural world is an authority, as are the academic establishment and religion. There is a tendency, though, to only accept empiricism as an authority. I think this started since m68: extreme individualism has made people to trust only what they can 'see'. For humanities to flourish you need an accepted academic authority. That's why humanities have fallen out of grace nowadays.

[Pat Doyle]

My former father in law was a stoner for most his life. I rarely saw him when he was not high, but he is a very happy, and annoyingly self-satisfied man. Avoiding reality and unpleasant feelings with alcohol and pot makes him feel good. It has not made him a better person, nor helped him live a better life, but he is happy,and if that is your only criteria for a good life choice then, fine. However, we are a social species, and one's actions affect society, and one's beliefs guide their actions.

[Pat Doyle]

What has the scientific method, and reason to do with formal authority? Authority is the basis of religion, and far more important to philosophy than to science. My opinions are not based in any formal authority, and always tended not to be (some of my teachers hated this - I questioned too much). And yes, one can receive gratification from delusion. No doubt there are people who believe they are Jesus or Napoleon, and it gives the great pleasure to believe this, but I wouldn't call that good.

[AmauryPenseur]

Answers don't necessarily have to be objectively correct for them to give you gratification. For me they (answers) have to have some sense of objectivity, but I know many people who don't need answers to be objectively backed by a formal authority. And in some way, those people have an advantage over me.

[AmauryPenseur]

Science can be used to increase our life expectancy, provide products that produce enjoyment, provide products to make you healthier, provide products for safety or give you illusion of safety. Those are all examples of practical uses where you need hard facts.

But to achieve happiness or fulfilment in your life, hard sciences are in no way an imperative requirement.

Why does it matter in the end that one has the right answers? Does it make your life better or make you feel happier? :P

[Pat Doyle]

What good are "answers" with no way to check if they are the RIGHT answers?