Ed67 writes:
They realized (and publicized) that there is no chemical force that influences the sequence of the 4 bases on the helix.
Right, the sequence is confined to what works. If it doesn't work, it can't get replicated... so then it doesn't exist.
If it works, it can replicate, and then it exists.
Yet, the code is there, and it produced life. If not by chemical forces, how did the code get there?
Now you're asking a different question.
First you're talking about the sequencing alone... and when talking about the sequencing
alone, you're right... that is not influenced by chemical forces... that's just whatever works.
But now you're asking how the sequence was
formed ("how did the code
get there?").
The answer is, of course, that the sequence was formed through the chemical forces that always form any and all organic chemicals when the conditions are present.
The
order or
specific sequencing is not governed by chemical forces... that's governed by what can work by replicating itself.
However, they're still all bonded through chemical forces. The same way
all molecules are formed.
I submit that the inference to the best explanation is that a designing intelligence was necessary.
In order to submit that a designing intelligence was necessary, you'll have to support a
reason why a designing intelligence would be necessary beyond "I don't understand chemistry."