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    Darwinists Beg the Question: Common Descent or Common Design?


    Darwinists Beg the Question: Common Descent or Common Design?
    By Jonathan Witt Published on September 6, 2017
    https://stream.org/darwinists-beg-th...common-design/

    I look a lot like my dad because, yes, he’s my dad. I’m descended from him. Darwinists often point to similarities across species, classes and phyla, and argue that this proves we’re all descended from a common ancestor. DNA, for example, crops up practically everywhere in the living world.

    But to say such things prove common descent ignores another possibility. A common feature may be due to common ancestry. But it might instead be due to a common design strategy. Think of cars. A Jaguar and a Mustang share many features ..... That doesn’t mean the Mustang evolved from the Jaguar. No, designers reuse design features proven to work for specific engineering needs.




    ...Looking for the Truth, Not Rigging the Answers

    So, what about with living things? Might a designer have used and reused a good design concept in widely different biological contexts?

    The only way to jump straight from biological similarities to evolution is to rule out the design hypothesis from the start....



    ...What does the evidence suggest is the better explanation for the origin of new plants and animals in the history of life? Is the best explanation blind evolution, or intelligent design? And what new findings might count in favor of one over the other? Those are the kind of questions an unfettered, truth-seeking scientific culture is happy to explore.

    The Case of So-Called “Junk DNA”


    Return to the example of DNA. DNA contains information that codes for biological machinery and form. We’re told chimp DNA and human DNA are 98 percent similar. That’s supposedly what you’d expect if humans evolved from a chimp-like ancestor. But that figure plummets if you compare bigger units of DNA....


    ...A related argument for ape-to-man evolution is that a stretch of DNA in humans and chimps seems to be a shared bit of junk DNA, bad code left over from a genetic mutation long ago, from before chimps and humans (supposedly) split from their common ancestor. No designer would have put the same line of junk DNA in chimps and humans, the argument goes. It’s pretty convincing on first blush.

    But today the whole idea of junk DNA is in retreat as geneticists discover more and more uses for stretches of DNA once considered useless.

    Darwinian theory led its champions to expect, and predict, that most of our DNA would prove to be junk left over from a blind process of trial-and-error.

    Intelligent design theorists predicted that “junk DNA” would prove to have function.

    The former led to a failed prediction.

    The latter led to a successful prediction. Sounds like good science.




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    Speaking of...has anyone here opted to have a DNA analysis done? They are readily available now and supposedly can guide us from resisting our DNA to utilizing it to be the best we can be...

    I believe some of you have for the ancestry analysis but what about health?
    https://www.23andme.com/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    Speaking of...has anyone here opted to have a DNA analysis done? They are readily available now and supposedly can guide us from resisting our DNA to utilizing it to be the best we can be...

    I believe some of you have for the ancestry analysis but what about health?
    https://www.23andme.com/
    I might consider it for ancestry, but I'm not interested in it for health. I just look around my family....we are pretty much alike.

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    I sometimes wonder - What does a well known evolutionist think when 5 seconds after dying realises there is a God and he has believed a lie during his life

    All their scientific training, fame, worldly honour all shredded to pieces

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    I sometimes wonder - What does a well known evolutionist think when 5 seconds after dying realises there is a God and he has believed a lie during his life

    All their scientific training, fame, worldly honour all shredded to pieces
    All one has to do is look at creation and see there is a God unless they are just stupid or intellectually dishonest. The odds of this happening and everything working together like it does are infinitesimal. Every species evolves at the same time with a male and female counterpart evolving at the same time with different reproductive organs that work together, etc. It really is ridiculous.

    And that's just one of thousands of things.

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