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[quote:nomuse (NLI) 411948:MV80NjczNjZfODIwMDU1N19BMkRENTQ3OA==] [quote:Anonymous Coward 406731] oh, ok......your perception is that an animal attacking you and an intestinal virus are both evil (satanic) acts. [/quote] That is a plausible argument as well. You can argue "God created fluffy bunnies, but the Devil created tapeworms." Or you can be a little more subtle and say "God created fluffy bunnies, and Adam, but Adam turned out to be an ass and he let the Devil in/forced god to make tapeworms." (A variation of the above is "Tapeworms were peaceful frolicking vegetarians until Adam fucked it up.") Of course the whole Original Sin question has not a little of the "Can He create a rock so heavy He can't lift it?" problem. Perhaps best analogy is more of a Pygmalion myth; God wants to be honestly loved, so he creates in Man the ability to reject him. This is certainly preferable to a God that creates creatures programmed to love Him! This all still, however, calls into question why He bothered creating a world as well. If all you need is Adam, deciding (free will) whether to love you or not, what need you, or Adam, with a complex world with its own moral challenges? Thus, an alternate idea; God creates a world that is neither paradise nor paradise lost, but one filled with challenges. Tapeworms are there to help humans find moral choices. But then we smack into, again, the place where I part company with organized religion. Which is, that all of these choices on Earth are treated merely as classroom exercises; as precursors to the only choice that matters. And that final choice; to love or not love this God of yours, is to be done precisely without most of the ways or tools we use to look at everything on the Earth. It is a choice that must be made blind. [/quote]
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The starting point of this discussion is my central thesis, which is:
1) DNA is not merely a molecule with a pattern; it is a code, a language, and an information storage mechanism.
2) All codes are created by a conscious mind; there is no natural process known to science that creates coded information.
3) Therefore DNA was designed by a mind.
If you can provide an empirical example of a code or language that occurs naturally, you've toppled my proof. All you need is one.
Perry Marshall
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