From: Lawrence Johnston (johnston@uidaho.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 18:40:33 EST
Glenn - You write to Ian Strachan and us:
>>>
And I still think you miss the key point. If I present Dembski a
random sequence, WITHOUT the key, and even without the knowledge
that there is a key, Dembski will conclude that there is no
design. That is what Dembski says over and over in the books.
Random sequences mean no design. >>>
Cryptographers often have to do hard work to decode messages.
this is exactly what our Molecular Biology friends, starting with
Crick and Watson, have done, to crack the DNA code into recipes
for the proteins required for living critters. But now that that
hard work has been done, and is so successful in giving us
verifiable information about our proteins and their control, to
form the morphologies and functionalities of animals, we accept
that the messages are real.
It seems to me a demonstration of supreme intelligent design that
we have such a world of Biology out there based on such a
marvelous code, extending back to the "Most Primitive"
(original?)cells. Somebody's fingerprints are all over the
Biological world.
All God's Best, Larry Johnston
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