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Author Topic:   Codes, Evolution, and Intelligent Design
deerbreh
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Message 211 of 220 (326786)
06-27-2006 10:51 AM


I am going to jump in here after lurking a while to say I think the present discussion about whether DNA is a code is a bit pointless. Why don't we just agree for purposes of discussion that it is a code, given that it walks, talks and quacks like a code. Then we can address the OP, which I take as "Every code known to man to date is a product of a conscious mind. All of them. There is not one example of a naturally generated code."
Now I am not a mathematician but I have a little knowledge of mathematics so I am dangerous. I would argue that there are many examples in mathematics that are codes that are not the product of a conscious mind. It is true that the SYMBOLS of mathematics are products of a conscious mind, but the actual mathematical relationships are not. For example, is not any mathematical sequence actually a code? Am I missing something?
on edit: OK I see that Percy has beat me to the point about math. Drat!
Edited by deerbreh, : To acknowledge Percy's point about math.

  
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