"In the end there must have been a creator"

Hypothetical for you: One day you die and you're surprised to find yourself before the Mighty Wicker Throne of Zongo, a little-known god worshipped only by a band of pygmies in deepest Africa. Turns out that this guy is the creator of the universe, all the other gods were fairy tales, and he's none-too-happy to see yet another jerk-off from Earth who has never heard of him.What are you going to tell him? Just hypothetical(ly).

Then you should have sent an email. Or, after almost 1700 posts, have you still not noticed this is a public forum?

No, they all do that.

Open a dictionary and point to a word. How many times will you point at a word that you know the definition of?If it's a Chinese dictionary, that is.You picked the ultimate bad example, because language is the ultimate example of context-sensitive encoding. A better example would have been - generate a random polypeptide from any number of amino residues. How likely is it to exhibit some useful property? The answer, according to people smarter than I, is one in 10^11.So do that about a million trillion times, and then select out the ones that are useful. How many useful proteins will you have? A fuck-ton. That's how evolution works. We generate a lot of shit at random, including, very, very rarely, something that works better; and then we throw out everything that doesn't work. Variation is expanded randomly in all directions; then variation is contracted in specific directions.It's so elegant, it has to work. It's impossible for it not to work.

I hand you a Chinese dictionary, and a similarly-formatted list of randomized Chinese characters of equal length.Can you tell the difference?The meaning of the dictionary doesn't exist in the dictionary. It exists, or doesn't exist, in your head. Similarly, there's no "meaning" in DNA. All it does is put amino acids in a row, based on the laws of physics. We might look at genetic sequence and associate it with its protein product; in doing so we might say that the sequence means that protein, but that is a mistake. The sequence does that protein. It doesn't mean that protein.There's no meaning in DNA, therefore talking about meaning is a non-sequiter. Yet this is impossible, because the only intelligence known to exist in the universe is human, and we weren't around at the time. Once we have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.But what's even better is that evolution isn't improbable; in fact, it's inevitable. We know it happens because we observe it; but moreover, it's impossible for it not to happen.

Yes. And its that context, rather than an inherent property that the words possess, that control which sequences are meaningful and which are not.DNA, on the other hand, is the reverse. All DNA sequences are equally meaningful; they generate proteins based on inherent properties of their physical structure, not through being interpreted by thinking beings. A Chinese dictionary only has meaning to a human mind that speaks Chinese. But DNA creates proteins in the absence of thought or context. Huh? You're saying that my CPU isn't doing any math at all; it's all being done by engineers at AMD? That's foolishness. Yes, absolutely. It's so complex, in fact, that it can't possibly be intelligently designed. Only evolution can generate that level of complexity. And its the arrangement that proves that its anything but.