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Ed67
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Message 46 of 223 (724795)
04-20-2014 11:00 PM
Reply to: Message 34 by PaulK
09-27-2013 2:17 AM


I agree - same old argument, different name
I agree with this part: That word (I forgot it already lol) is just another name for communicating specified information, which, as ID has always argued, is the POSSIBLE downfall of abiogenesis.
Perhaps, though, it is more accurately describing what ID is trying to get across with its argument for the design of the code contained in DNA.
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Edited by Ed67, : Just having thoughts

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Message 47 of 223 (724796)
04-20-2014 11:18 PM
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09-30-2013 7:40 AM


"Pressie" writes:
Not worth looking at.
Don't you find that a little prejudiced? I think he's making some EXCELLENT progress in making his case. Bravo!

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Message 48 of 223 (724797)
04-20-2014 11:42 PM
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11-02-2013 3:49 PM


Re: Omigosh let's see if I get it ...
RAS writes:
GASP: that is obviously a coded sequence, and that means there was an original coder ... and this means the code must direct the action of the atoms to form first one set of molecules and then another: it must be ... {knees tremble} ...
Otherwise know as the post hoc ergo propter hoc logical fallacy
I must object; that straw man was a non-sequetir.
In your characterature, the fact that there was an original coder for the chemical nomenclature system, does not mean that "The code must direct the action of the atoms". In this case, the code must direct the action of the LAB CHEMIST.
But what if the lab chemist was replaced by a robot, pre-programmed to read the code of the researcher and cause the specified chemical reactions? This robot, receiving, translating, and executing communicated instructions, is much like the DNA molecule. It's just a mechanistic 'robot' pre-programmed to execute received orders.
The interesting question is, where did the DNA originally receive the orders from?

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Message 49 of 223 (724799)
04-21-2014 12:47 AM
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04-20-2014 11:42 PM


Re: Omigosh let's see if I get it ...
The interesting question is, where did the DNA originally receive the orders from?
You haven't come anywhere near setting up the loading in that question. One might just as well ask where the coding in a diamond came from.

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Message 50 of 223 (724805)
04-21-2014 3:35 AM
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04-20-2014 11:00 PM


Re: I agree - same old argument, different name
The idea that evolution can't explain the first replicators isn't even an ID idea. Creationists are about the only people who even think that evolution should explain the first replicators.

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Message 51 of 223 (724827)
04-21-2014 11:42 AM
Reply to: Message 48 by Ed67
04-20-2014 11:42 PM


Re: Omigosh let's see if I get it ...
Edsel, who can't be bothered to type 4 letters, let alone get three correct ... lets me abuse the coded sequence for the specific information in his name ...
I must object; that straw man was a non-sequetir.
In your characterature, the fact that there was an original coder for the chemical nomenclature system, ...
No no no, the naming is not the code they are just names for the atoms of the code so that we can refer to them with some semblance of intellectual comprehension (what are words and names good for anyway, just misspell it and people will understand eh?
The caricature that you so aptly point out applies to your caricature of the DNA molecule ...
So I am glad and relieved to see that you understand the errors of your position.
... does not mean that "The code must direct the action of the atoms". In this case, the code must direct the action of the LAB CHEMIST.
No it means that the atoms naturally form these molecules, just as all molecules come together in specific patterns do the the chemical reaction patterns based on their compositions.
But what if the lab chemist was replaced by a robot, pre-programmed to read the code of the researcher and cause the specified chemical reactions? This robot, receiving, translating, and executing communicated instructions, ...
The you have introduced a totally unnecessary element to a natural process that doesn't need a helping hand, haven't you?
What purpose does the robot serve?
... is much like the DNA molecule. It's just a mechanistic 'robot' pre-programmed to execute received orders.
And the DNA molecules act just the same with or without the unnecessarily introduced purposeless robot ... making chemical reactions by the natural process that doesn't need a helping hand, as we have just established.
The interesting question is, where did the DNA originally receive the orders from?
Yep, right up there with the interesting question, where did the sodium atom originally receive the orders to combine with chlorine to make salt ... just so we could have salt on our food! Amazing isn't it.
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Message 52 of 223 (724859)
04-21-2014 8:10 PM
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04-21-2014 3:35 AM


Re: I agree - same old argument, different name
"PaulK" writes:
The idea that evolution can't explain the first replicators isn't even an ID idea. Creationists are about the only people who even think that evolution should explain the first replicators."
What kind of an argument is that?
We're not talking about whose idea it is.
you're wrong in your facts, but this is not the place for that argument.
Anyway, what matters is: whether evolution (methodological naturalism) can explain the first 'replicators', as you call them.
What do you think?

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Ed67
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Message 53 of 223 (724860)
04-21-2014 8:15 PM
Reply to: Message 49 by NoNukes
04-21-2014 12:47 AM


The Loading Setup Tutorial
"NoNukes" writes:
You haven't come anywhere near setting up the loading in that question. One might just as well ask where the coding in a diamond came from.
NN, would you please explain your idea a little more? I'm not sure what you mean by loading.
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Message 54 of 223 (724862)
04-21-2014 8:38 PM
Reply to: Message 52 by Ed67
04-21-2014 8:10 PM


Re: I agree - same old argument, different name
Anyway, what matters is: whether evolution (methodological naturalism) can explain the first 'replicators', as you call them.
Perhaps this would be a good time to explain that writing --- for example --- "cat (dog)" does not actually make the word "cat" synonymous with "dog", nor, for that matter, establish any other relationship between them.
Evolution, of course, does not explain the first replicators, for the same reason that gravity doesn't.
Methodological naturalism, of course, does not explain the first replicators, for the same reason that the double-blind method doesn't.
Try to cultivate a little accuracy in thought and speech.

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Ed67
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Message 55 of 223 (724863)
04-21-2014 8:41 PM
Reply to: Message 40 by bluegenes
09-28-2013 3:36 AM


Re: Do all self-replicating molecules require recorded information.
"blue genes" writes:
...chemical self-replicators (which could exist on prebiotic earth)...
I wasn't aware that a chemical self-replicator that could exist on prebiotic earth was discovered or synthesized. Would you care to back up your statement with citations?

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Ed67
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Message 56 of 223 (724865)
04-21-2014 9:34 PM
Reply to: Message 31 by ringo
06-17-2013 12:39 PM


"Ringo" writes:
My point was that in both semiosis and numerology the "meaning" is assigned by the believer. It is not necessarily inherent in the system.
But that's exactly what this semiosis seems to be - a meaning inherit in the sequence of bases on the DNA molecule - inherently able to couple with the protein-building system, which is inherently able to produce proteins in the right amount, at the right time, and deliver them to the right place to make life possible.
The question is: where did this base sequence get inherited from?
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Message 57 of 223 (724866)
04-21-2014 9:37 PM
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04-21-2014 9:34 PM


But that's exactly what this semiosis seems to be - a meaning inherit in the sequence of bases on the DNA molecule - inherently able to couple with the protein-building system, which is inherently able to produce proteins in the right amount, at the right time, and deliver them to the right place to make life possible.
That's only because the sequences that resulted in life dying were eliminated from the gene pool.

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Message 58 of 223 (724867)
04-21-2014 9:42 PM
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04-21-2014 9:37 PM


"Taq" writes:
that's only because the sequences that resulted in life dying were eliminated from the gene pool.
There was no gene pool back then.

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Message 59 of 223 (724868)
04-21-2014 9:43 PM
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04-21-2014 9:42 PM


There was no gene pool back then.
The combinations of chemicals that did not result in reproduction were quickly swamped by combinations of chemicals that did. It is simply a feedback loop.
Added by edit: It is no different than feedback through a microphone and speaker system. White noise will result in a single tone being amplified above all the other frequencies because that one frequency happens to be "just the right one".
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Message 60 of 223 (724884)
04-22-2014 1:53 AM
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04-21-2014 9:42 PM


There was no gene pool back then.
Back when? How far back are you looking?
If there was no gene pool then there were no genes. If that's the time you refer to then you're not talking DNA but RNA. The RNA World and Cairns-Smith hypotheses use RNA as their initial focus for replication.
They hypothesize RNA as the first self-catalyzing self-replicating chains and not very long or very complex ones at that. The hypotheses continue that as the reactions in RNA-based organisms became longer and more complex it became thermodynamically easier (something nature seems to take advantage of at every opportunity) to make use of the DNA structures to augment the RNA mechanisms.
For each step Taq is correct. Any chemical reaction that enhanced the processes got replicated and those that did not died out. In the slow processes of chemical evolution, trial and error in literally trillions of trials a day over 500+ million years, by the time we find the first fossils (cyanobacteria) DNA had apparently become the main structure of chemical inheritance. Further refinements in the chemical interplay led to what we know today as "the cell" with its highly complex chemistry.
No need for any code writer since there is no code. There is just the result of billions of years of chemical complexity that, to us humans, appears to mimic a code that we might devise.
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