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Intelligent Design (Part II)
Posted 05-18-2009 at 05:22 AM by bluepacific
"Intelligent Design" (Part II)
The challenge to an article such as that by George Gilder is to decipher and translate the intellectual speech/words/terms which is for the most part used to impress peers, colleagues and opponents and explain in simple easy to understand terms it's application to what the intellectuals like to condescendingly refer to as the common "Layman". How sad really, because the average human being needs to be educated on such vital facts/truths regarding our planet. Our planet is on the brink of collaspe and many scientists today admit that the proposed ideas for reversing the effects of global ruin are only mere stopgap measures. Many ideas are no different than putting a band-aid on a serious neck wound effecting the jugular vein. Even if they came up with the most brilliant plan of attack against Global warming and other harmful environmental problems, there are no assurances that the average human being with climb on board and cooperate.
The illustration of the "Information Theory" with regards the beginnings of life on our planet Earth is a brilliant one. It's logical because we all deal with the information processes in every day life. The comparison made with a computer's hardware and it's relationship to the software is a real life visual aid.
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The information encrypted on the "Software" always controls the actions of the "Hardware" and not the other way around. The Hardware Componants never create their own information and direct the actions of the Software. We all use computers, we've seen the amazing Programs - Tool Boxes - Options we have available for functional use on our own P.C.. The information itself is also not restricted by the material substrate it is etched into. It is independent and only is subject to the creator of it whether that creator/inventor is Microsoft, Netscape, etc. Information is never enshrined or imprisoned inside anything. Information in it's purest form is thoughts, ideas, plans, meditation, purposeful, etc. It is true that information is put out in written form for instructive and communication purposes, but it itself is still independent of anything physical or material as we know it.
These facts as we know them about intelligent information conflict with the Evolutionary Science stories used to explain life developing out of non-life. They almost always discount any intelligent information whatsoever and attribute things to "pointless blind indifference" as Dawkins sarcastically puts it. The average story is pretty much the same as summarized in Richard Dawkins book, "The Selfish Gene". Here is the story as Mr Dawkins has explained it.
He speculates that our Earth had a primitive atmosphere composed of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Ammonia and Water. Through energy supplied by sunlight, or perhaps lightening, exploding volcanoes or under sea gysers, these simple compounds were broken apart and then they re-formed into Amino Acids. A variety of these gradually accumulated in the Sea and combined into protein-like compounds. He says that ultimately, they all formed an "Organic Soup" though still remaining lifeless.
Then, according to Mr Dawkins description from this same book, " a particularly remarkable molecule formed by accident" - a molecule that had the ability to replicate itself. Similiar molecules formed by this same improbable accident and formed clusters, and again, by this same improbable accident, these molecules floating in this bubbling and churning soup mix wrapped a protective barrier of other protein molecules around themselves as a sort of membrane. Thus we are to believe that the first replicating cell magically appeared through this accidental process. Mr Dawkins admits that this accident is improbable, but that it nevertheless happened even though no one has ever proven this.
The one outstanding attempt, which I actually find interesting and have no problem with science actually trying to figure out the how things came about, is an experiment by Stanley Miller in 1953 where he took this story of a primitive atmosphere inside a controlled environment and ran an electric spark through this "atmosphere" of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water. He was trying to obtain the creation of Amino Acids which are the building blocks for protein molecules. He actually produced some, but only 4 out of the necessary 20 needed for protein molecule construction.
But now the idea of miraclulous and magical formation and replication of Protein molecules runs into a major road block. This is pointed out by George Gilder as the Central Doctrine of Molecular Biology and it's really cool. I'll explain it in the next segment (Part III)
The challenge to an article such as that by George Gilder is to decipher and translate the intellectual speech/words/terms which is for the most part used to impress peers, colleagues and opponents and explain in simple easy to understand terms it's application to what the intellectuals like to condescendingly refer to as the common "Layman". How sad really, because the average human being needs to be educated on such vital facts/truths regarding our planet. Our planet is on the brink of collaspe and many scientists today admit that the proposed ideas for reversing the effects of global ruin are only mere stopgap measures. Many ideas are no different than putting a band-aid on a serious neck wound effecting the jugular vein. Even if they came up with the most brilliant plan of attack against Global warming and other harmful environmental problems, there are no assurances that the average human being with climb on board and cooperate.
The illustration of the "Information Theory" with regards the beginnings of life on our planet Earth is a brilliant one. It's logical because we all deal with the information processes in every day life. The comparison made with a computer's hardware and it's relationship to the software is a real life visual aid.
PLUS
EQUALS
The information encrypted on the "Software" always controls the actions of the "Hardware" and not the other way around. The Hardware Componants never create their own information and direct the actions of the Software. We all use computers, we've seen the amazing Programs - Tool Boxes - Options we have available for functional use on our own P.C.. The information itself is also not restricted by the material substrate it is etched into. It is independent and only is subject to the creator of it whether that creator/inventor is Microsoft, Netscape, etc. Information is never enshrined or imprisoned inside anything. Information in it's purest form is thoughts, ideas, plans, meditation, purposeful, etc. It is true that information is put out in written form for instructive and communication purposes, but it itself is still independent of anything physical or material as we know it.
These facts as we know them about intelligent information conflict with the Evolutionary Science stories used to explain life developing out of non-life. They almost always discount any intelligent information whatsoever and attribute things to "pointless blind indifference" as Dawkins sarcastically puts it. The average story is pretty much the same as summarized in Richard Dawkins book, "The Selfish Gene". Here is the story as Mr Dawkins has explained it.
He speculates that our Earth had a primitive atmosphere composed of Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Ammonia and Water. Through energy supplied by sunlight, or perhaps lightening, exploding volcanoes or under sea gysers, these simple compounds were broken apart and then they re-formed into Amino Acids. A variety of these gradually accumulated in the Sea and combined into protein-like compounds. He says that ultimately, they all formed an "Organic Soup" though still remaining lifeless.
Then, according to Mr Dawkins description from this same book, " a particularly remarkable molecule formed by accident" - a molecule that had the ability to replicate itself. Similiar molecules formed by this same improbable accident and formed clusters, and again, by this same improbable accident, these molecules floating in this bubbling and churning soup mix wrapped a protective barrier of other protein molecules around themselves as a sort of membrane. Thus we are to believe that the first replicating cell magically appeared through this accidental process. Mr Dawkins admits that this accident is improbable, but that it nevertheless happened even though no one has ever proven this.
The one outstanding attempt, which I actually find interesting and have no problem with science actually trying to figure out the how things came about, is an experiment by Stanley Miller in 1953 where he took this story of a primitive atmosphere inside a controlled environment and ran an electric spark through this "atmosphere" of hydrogen, methane, ammonia, and water. He was trying to obtain the creation of Amino Acids which are the building blocks for protein molecules. He actually produced some, but only 4 out of the necessary 20 needed for protein molecule construction.
But now the idea of miraclulous and magical formation and replication of Protein molecules runs into a major road block. This is pointed out by George Gilder as the Central Doctrine of Molecular Biology and it's really cool. I'll explain it in the next segment (Part III)
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