SpatialMind... I might as well humor this, as I'm at least mildly.... curious about your answer.
You are right that Science can not explain everything. In the past, it was things like lightning and rain.. So we attributed it to Thor, the God of thunder. How else could lightning and rain be created if it was not by conscious design? Nowadays... well, we now know how thunder and rain work.
To be clear. I'm talking about how science has no idea how anything could have been alive to begin with. Once something dies we cannot bring it back, nor do we have the slightest clue how to bring things to life.
I'm not talking about what they might have believed in ancient Greece.
You see why he made the comparison though, right?
It's apt, there's nothing to say that just as many years in the future that we couldn't come to learn and understand DNA's ins and outs the same way that we now understand Lightning. It's more likely a point on the timeline rather than proof of any sort of Creator when we use his Thor model.
Yeah I see why.
So you can accept the premise that, further down the timeline of humanity, that DNA could be completely trivialized when compared to the myths forming around it ala God of the Gaps?
I don't accept that complex and highly functional code writes itself. You do, i don't. It's that simple.
Code doesn't write itself. And everything that is functional in us has purpose and is coded. This is the mark of intelligence.
I think you might be looking at this a little too deeply into the computer metaphors.
No because the DNA is really 3D coding. And it's more advanced than our computer coding.
Survival of the Fittest errs more reasonably towards Occam's Razor than the presumption of a Creator, we can even trace a timeline with species that died out from having traits that were not ideal for survival. That which is of Nature has gone through a very long timeline of changes and adaptations, and there's tons of data on it.
That doesn't say anything about there being a creator or not.
Through chaos we don't find functional masterpieces, no matter how much we shake a box of junk, we'll never pull from it an automobile. We're more complex than what we've made.
Through chaos you could find quote unquote 'Functional Masterpieces', it'd simply be a matter of the span of said Chaos's reach for how much it'd affect the odds of it's generation.
Space is huge, dude, it's not that crazy to think this could happen along the same lines as The Infinite Monkey Theorem.
Yeah space is huge, and space is said to be above 0 as a substance while Hawking argued it's absolute 0.
The infinite monkey theorem would be a consciousness at play. Unpredictable sure. But self collapsing none the less.
We know we're made of dust. Science concurs with this.
We know everything on the Earth and the Earth itself came from space.
How was bacteria even alive ? We have different explanations, but it's not worthwhile for me to share my thoughts on the matter while I'm subject to ridicule and Odin and all that stuff.
We know there are planets like Earth out there that can support life, the nearest one that we know of is only 4.2 lightyears away. It is in this galaxy.
4.2 lightyears away, in this galaxy said to be 100 lightyears in diameter. That's pretty dense, and is there's life on those planets, probably. But we don't know.