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15263577 No.15263577 [Reply] [Original]

Let's take the genetic code for example.

> Literal code

> No laws in physics or chemistry dictating that this coding must equal this amino acid, meaning the code is arbitrary.

> Intelligence is the only cause capable of producing code.

This is just one specific example. But aside from this, if we look at the totality of information bearing systems within molecular biology and their integrative function with each other, can anyone truly be an intellectually honest naturalist?

>> No.15263891

>>15263577
>Intelligence is the only cause capable of producing code
That particular makeup of DNA had many millions of years to develop. I'm not certain but I'd say it's highly unlikely the first mutation from carbon and other compounds into DNA as we know it was the correct mutation. There was probably thousands or millions of combinations of chemicals and one happened to be useful, or maybe many lived for some period but only DNA as we know it survived the test of time

>> No.15263895

>>15263891
DNA is not the genetic code, nor is it a code.

>> No.15263915

>>15263895
I didn't say anything about code

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>>15263577

Define "naturalism" ...

>how can random chance produce code

That's one of the deeper snek sekrits there. :}~<