My relative posted a video promoting intelligent design. In the video it showed a book and asked a number of people if they thought it could have come together by chance. They said no, someone would have had to design it. The producer then stated that DNA was the book that explained how to put people together. They asked do you think the DNA could have come together by chance? Everyone was amazed, no of course not.
A couple of points: DNA is not a book, it is a molecular structure. It did not come about by chance but was developed through billions of years of evolution following a process where a portion of the universe can decrease entropy by increasing entropy of the rest of the universe, an entropic trade.
DNA is not error free but is filled with mistakes, junk DNA, DNA that does little more than make copies of itself. It is nothing like a perfect book.
If you go along with the intelligent design crowd it doesn't take long for them to tell you that not only was there an intelligent designer but that being had to be the Christian god since it turns out there are some other obscure observations that somehow link there ideas to Christianity.
Then they go on to explain that the earth is only 5000 years old and people used to play with dinosaurs in the garden of Eden.
If there is a god is he benevolent or malevolent? Otherwise how could you explain children being born with genetic illnesses? How is it that an all-powerful god lets babies die? If there is a God I would not worship such a being.
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Socialists
A woman told me that she was upset at how socialist the United States had become under President Obama. I wondered what socialist programs she thinks are bad:
- Public education
- Public roads
- Social security
- Medicare
- Drinking water
- Public libraries
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