Speyside wrote:Victor, you stated DNA code is random. It is not. Code carries specific information that must be in the proper sequence to work. Patterns on the other hand can be and are random, since they carry no information. The only thing random in DNA is mutation.
Also, Physics is. Really? That is a hollow statement, certainly lacking any proof. I was and am struggling to try to explain specifically what I mean. Physics is, WHY? I am not buying an argument of randomness here.
Still looking at things from the end result.
If human life was the goal, then yes , DNA would be a code to achieve that goal, and it would be highly unlikely to stumble upon it randomly.
However, what about if there is no "goal" in the universe? Then when the simplest building blocks were assembling (RNA incidentally is believed to precede DNA) , there were plenty of times when the sequence of RNA resulted in nothing. The same way no one thinks of the millions of lotto losers, there were huge numbers of random sequences which resulted in nothing. No coding of anything of value.
Don't get me wrong, I have no idea (I honestly haven't looked, others may have an idea) what the first replicating organism would look like. Did it code a protein, or was it just a string of RNA that was somehow able to replicate by assembling an opposite to bind with. As there would be no cell walls, I would expect no machinery... No translation machinery at first. And I don't know how the first replicating strings of RNA then managed to move into a contained environment (cell membranes, which would be made of amino acids and lipids, which would require RNA sequences to code it, and translation machinery, which shouldn't exist until there is a cell membrane)... But that doesn't mean there is a code. I just means we don't know enough to see how that step would be made yet.
We aren't the result of one dude knowing exactly what lotto numbers to pick. We are the result of millions of people picking lotto numbers and one of them actually hitting. The problem is that we're pretending after the fact that it was always destined to happen this way.
As for physics, I think you misinterpreted what I said. Physics is literally just physics. If there were an easier way to boil it down I would even take away the name physics. As in, the forces of the universe will interact with each other other whether we recognize them, correctly or incorrectly attribute numbers to them and derive formulas (again, correctly or incorrectly). The laws and rules we have applied are literally just our way of trying to apply a pattern so that we understand what is going on. It's a tough thing to explain... But it's important.
Look at it this way.... The laws are. The physical world will move to obey those laws (planets will spin, thhey will orbit, they will get closer or further from stars and they will crash into them and be obliterated... Hell,chunks of mass will congregate into larger masses. All this happens, and continues to happen. Our planet is temporarily (from a universe perspective) amenable to the type of life which developed. If it were amenable to a different type, that may have developed. If it weren't amenable to any life, then none would develop. there are other locations it may be developing or have developed.
Just because we can assign a value to a physics equation doesn't mean that the law is a pattern/code or anything like that... It just exists and we assigned a number.
I'm reminded of this comic... (Which incidentally involves a god existing) ...
https://smbc-comics.com/comic/pi