| Rath said: @Timmah. 'Design' is referring to the design of evolution, when an animal becomes more likely to survive than the rest of its species through mutation then it becomes more likely to survive, thus over time evolution can shape and change a creature to become different than what it was. Evolution can 'design' something. Also DNA wouldnt have existed in the first creatures, something far more simple would have existed, DNA as with everything else in life, would have occured with evolution over time. The first life on this planet we probably wouldnt even recognize as life, just a little bag of chemicals with the nifty ability to reproduce. |
I was just about to post something similar in a reply to his "design" statement. I think Timmah was equating
"design" to "intelligent design", I doubt that in the vast majority of the comments of "design" that the person making them was referring to "intelligent design".
As for your second paragraph Timmah is talking about a theory by Richard Lathe that life couldn't have come into existance on Earth without the moon. Richard Lathe has never given any credit to a "God" or anything else in his theory though. The fact that there is absolutely no proof that the moon was ever artificially put into a position to jumpstart life on this planet seems to indicate to me that people shouldn't be using it as evidence for one. To be honest I've never seen or read about *anything* that requires there to have been a "God" present or that was proof of one.
I think the problem with people who try to prove there is a God is that no matter how much science they attempt to use inevitably there comes a point where faith enters the picture. People have the right to either believe in a God, gods, etc or not but anyone attempting to explain one using science should expect to have their argument torn apart and proven unscientific.
