@bigdogg said
I thought the workings of the DNA molecule were fairly well understood. That's why we can already clone larger animals, like sheep.
Do you perhaps mean "origin" of the DNA molecule, instead?
Origins is in the title of the talk. Did you notice?
The belief in intelligence behind DNA is not based there on what we don't know.
It is based on what we DO know. ie. things like this require great intelligence.
Maybe you didn't watch the 26 minute talk all the way through?
Particularly striking was the examples of
7:01 into it - the
lego blocks making the two flying machines. This was an example of ready made components being particularly suited for more advanced functionality. Some things are not passed on. Some components are brand new as biological systems grow in functionality.
Also the examples at
9:50 of the letters
STAR read in that order also make sense as
RATS when read backwards. If I understood right DNA can give one useful directive read in one direction and another important directive when read in another direction.
I don't have enough faith the not recognized intelligence in that design.
Again around
10:08 the letters
DELIVER has one meaning read in this order but when reversed as
RELIVED means something totally different.
He said entire chapters of DNA do this, having one meaningful directive on protein making when read in one direction and another meaningful directive when read in the reverse direction -
entire chapters of lengthy DNA strains!
Go to
10:44 in the video about writing a manual for making cell phones. No human is smart enough to write such a manual that gives one direction when the manual is read frontwards and another directions when it is read backwards.
That we do not understand how to do.
And whoever designed DNA that way was exponentially more intelligent then us.
Ie, " We want to save money on paper. So write a manual so that when read forwards it tells you how to assemble the cell phone. But when read backwards it explains how to use the cell phone."
Then at
11:36 he speaks of overlapping information in DNA design.
Ie. "
ILIKECHOCOLATERTHATEVENING" can communicate two different meanings:
I LIKE CHOCOLATE can be derived if you just garb that part.
LATTER THAT EVENING can be derived if you grab only the other part.
If I understood rightly, DNA has this kind of ability to code compactly overlapping meanings. You have compacted two different functional meanings in one arrangement of letters. This occurring in DNA evidences intelligence.
Evidence of an Intelligent Creator is a good post title AND Origins was in the video title.