āDNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.ā ā Bill Gates, The Road Ahead tags: biology, dna, id, information, intelligent-design, science 150 likes Like āOur DNA is coded to harmonise the frequency of the atoms we use to build ourselves.
āThe secret of DNA's success is that it carries information like that of a computer program, but far more advanced. Since experience shows that intelligence is the only presently acting cause of information, we can infer that intelligence is the best explanation for the information in DNA.ā ā Jonathan Wells,
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design
Analyses such as these are always maliciously and ignorantly attacked not with science, not with logic or counterpoint, but rather by impugning the individuals making the analyses. Hateful bitterness is perhaps the supreme mƩtier of the Godless Left. It is their sine qua non.
I'm afraid your typical participation in threads amounting to nothing more than cutting and pasting "quotes" is, as usual, silly and pointless.
Bill Gates is no more a biologist or chemist than you are. To equate computer coding with biogical processes is ludicrous. Let's see if we can offer some enlightenment, shall we? DNA is not computer code. DNA involves the interactions of chemical compounds called amino acids. Does that help?
As to the whacked creationerist Jonathan Wells, why would you "quote" something from a creationerist crackpot?
As far as I can discern Ian Weinberg resides in South Africa. Since that disqualifies him we have us another major loon ...
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Wells is the author of āIcons of Evolutionā and āRegnery Publishingās Politically Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Designā, both of which failed to survive even cursory glances from people who actually know anything about evolution; a truly substantial analysis and critique if Icons can be found here. But then, the purpose of the former was explicitly to argue that creationism should be taught in public schools ā and for those purposes the actual science is of course less important, since the creationists cannot win on that battlefield anyways (a point that is well made in this review of the Politically Incorrect Guide; after all, the whole frame is that Darwinism has declared war on traditional Christianity; the science is just a pretense). Wellsās lack of understanding of development and evolution (and science) is duly documented; he does, in short, not have the faintest idea, and can obviously not be bothered to look it up either (because, you know, fact checks won't yield the results he wants).
True to form, Wells also wrote the āTen questions to ask your biology teacher about evolutionā for high school students (published by the Discovery Institute). They are answered here and here. Instead of trying to point to any shortcomings with the answers, though, Wells prefers to repeat the questions as if nothing has happened, since that is rhetorically more effective, and the goal is to win debates, not find out what's actually the case.
He also participated in the Kansas evolution hearings and has been featured on a Starbucksās āThe Way I See Itā.
His newest book, āThe Myth of Junk DNAā, discusses the phenomenon of junk DNA, a phenomenon that heartily offends Intelligent Design proponents insofar as it suggests that not everything in the universe has a purpose. The book is just as well-informed as his previous books, and responses to the first three chapters can be found here, here, and here.
Diagnosis: Appallingly inane crackpot, infuriatingly dense, and reprehensibly dishonest, Wellsās lack of insight and inability to even pretend to begin to understand anything before he starts criticizing it based on personal dislike, is of almost epic proportions. Yet he continues to be shockingly influential
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