mike the wiz writes:
My knowledge of biology is not relevant to the truth-value of a claim.
No, but your likelihood of making untrue claims rises sharply the less you know of the subject. I was politely assuming that your flawed concepts of biology stemmed from lack of knowledge and not design.
mike the wiz writes:
There is ZERO data that shows life can come from matter arranging itself and an inteligence solves this problem.
Even *if* there was no data that showed life can originate from matter, a stance with which I strongly disagree, your "solution" to the problem is not worthy of attention. Unless you have convincing supporting evidence to back up your claimed solution it holds no more weight than any other random idea.
mike the wiz writes:
DNA is fact not evidence. It is a code gets designs, and information only matters to intelligence.
You have lost me here. First of all, why and how are you distinguishing fact from evidence? Second, your claim that DNA is purely information and information only matters to intelligence is ludicrous! DNA is a chemical compound; are you suggesting that chemical compounds don't operate as their structure defines unless there is an intelligence there to witness it?
mike the wiz writes:
We have something stronger than evidence. I define evidence as something which is weak, which makes a theory viable. i.e. the consequent of your modus ponen. If theory X then Y should follow.
This is where you went wrong, you are misusing one of the simplest logical constructs. Your theory is that if X, then Y. In order to properly go about "affirming the antecedent" the logic would be:
If X, then Y.
X.
Therefore, Y.
Instead you say that you are using the consequent of the modus ponen as your evidence. This is a formal fallacy called "affirming the consequent". You are trying to do this:
If X, then Y.
Y.
Therefore, X.
This does not logically work.
If I have misinterpreted any part of your post please attempt to explain your point again, I had an extremely difficult time getting a coherent though out of your post.