Sunday 6 February 2011

The Nitty Gritty....

What we truly come to value in life often originates from those "what if" moments...
'What if I could do this.... What if he or she feels the same... What if this were true?"...

I've spent the last few weeks working my way through the bulk of Stephen Meyer's very well researched work, 'The Signature in the Cell', which is seeking to make a case that the evidence for the view of our existence known as Intelligent Design is actually all around us, and our cracking of DNA and the complexity of related biological processes has now furnished that data.
It's a book that certainly brings on one of those deep 'what if' moments, not least because Meyer carefully unpacks the current approaches and ideas concerning how we got here, and then seeks to show that not only do such attempts produce very few answers, but that their underlying assumptions actually substantiate that we cannot be here by chance.

I have watched how the ID arguments have shaped-up over the last twenty years. Yes, there are plenty that would like us to out rightly ignore or dismiss them, but that tends to be because time isn't being spent considering the actual state of play now reached in the thorough manner Meyer does in this work. It's pretty heavy going in places, especially when the author delves deep into micro biology (I understand why... it just makes my head spin).
All of this allows him to reach a startling point about two-thirds of the way through this study-

Having shown why ID makes the best sense (even from research generated to show the complete opposite) he concludes:
"The specified information in the cell establishes the existence and past action of intelligent activity in the origin of life. Experience shows that large amounts of specified complexity or information (especially in codes and languages) invariably originate from an intelligent source".
Now that is a major consideration, because as so many working in this and other fields have noted, this is exactly the nature of the fundamental information found in all of life.

Philosophers, Scientists, Thinkers of all kinds, have for centuries looked upon the order and structure of the universe and pondered if this "speaks" of a mind at work - the masterpiece of the greatest artist. It could well be that in our very lifetime, the true 'fingerprint' of our maker has been seen for the first time, and that signature is encoded into every cell in our body...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I am from Australia.

Please find a completely different Illuminated Understanding of the relation between religion, science and culture altogether, and of course Real Acausal God.

www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-god.aspx

www.dabase.org/dht7.htm

www.dabase.org/christmc2.htm

www.dabase.org/spacetim.htm

www.dabase.org/s-atruth.htm Reality & the Middle

Of course all of those marvelous cells (with their signature) disintegrate, rot and die.

Howard said...
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Howard said...

John,
Thanks for your reply.

If you've taken a look at some of my other blogs, then you'd see that I believe that creation speaks clearly of not only of a creator, but a corruption of that creation due to the current human condition. Jesus Christ has come to redeem what has been lost, so life is not just about adjusting to the current pain, it's about having faith in that wonderful work of God's saving grace through His only begotten Son. Check out the credibility of that message - listen to the message of Jesus and His followers themselves, that is crucial. It is there, that we can truly find the way home. All the best from England.