Cellular metabolism,

 

Divinely Designed

@DivinelyDesined

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Nov 12

This process makes it obvious that Life was intelligently designed. It couldn't have evolved, because the process of replication requires all these systems working together first. A system can't evolve if Life requires it to survive. Cellular metabolism, even in the simplest single celled organisms, is required in order to bring in (eat) new material, break things down, absorb what's needed, expel the waste, and then distribute those molecules to the right places to be rebuilt into cellular parts or made into energy to power all these systems. That's a massive complex network of systems working together to keep the cell alive and able to do anything at all. No way to bring only certain molecules in? Dead. No way to expel waste? Dead. No way to break things down? Dead. No way to organize molecules for construction? Dead. No way to convert molecules into energy? Dead. This complex system requires at least 140 genes minimum. That's about 150,000 lines of precisely sequenced DNA information. Roughly 50-60 of those genes build transporters that let the right materials in and push waste out. Another 40-50 handle the processing steps that break materials down to turn them into energy and building blocks. And the rest help assemble those building blocks into all the parts the cell needs to grow and replicate. Hundreds of thousands of lines of precisely coded genetic information to create an interdependent network of irreducibly complex machines working together in a step-by-step process to accomplish a singular overall goal. There is only cause we've ever observed creating systems like this. Intelligence. Evolution cannot build this system, because evolution relies on this system existing in the first place. Life was clearly Intelligently Designed.

Galactic life

 

Joker Jon's

@NorenNamert

Translated from Russian

The Galaxy should be teeming with life. Billions of stars, billions of planets, billions of years. Even if civilizations travel at speeds tens of times slower than light, one of them could have colonized the entire Galaxy in just a few million years. And yet we gaze at the sky—and hear silence. This is the Fermi paradox. The question isn't "is anyone out there," but "why can't we see them if they should be there." There are many answers, and nearly every one is inconvenient in its own way. The Great Filter. On the path from dead chemistry to a civilization that reaches for the stars, there's at least one step that almost no one passes. Perhaps life arises extremely rarely. Perhaps complex cells are the rarest fluke. Perhaps intelligence almost never emerges. Or the filter lies ahead: civilizations reliably destroy themselves with nuclear weapons, climate collapse, bioweapons, or their own artificial intelligence before they can become noticeable. If the filter is behind us—we're rare, but relatively safe. If it's ahead—we're ordinary, and the odds are slim. Rare Earth. Simple life might be commonplace. But complex, multicellular, intelligent, and technological life requires a long chain of extremely improbable conditions: the right orbit, a Moon of the proper size, Jupiter as a shield, plate tectonics, a stable climate for hundreds of millions of years, and a dozen other factors. We simply won a lottery that almost no one else does. Dark Forest. The Galaxy is full of life, but the silence isn't accidental. Any civilization that broadcasts its presence into space risks attracting someone stronger and more ruthless. Silence is a survival strategy. We've only recently started shining with radio waves and haven't yet grasped how dangerous that might be. Zoo. More advanced civilizations know about us but deliberately don't interfere. We're a nature preserve or an experiment to them. They watch as we develop on our own and don't intervene until we reach a certain level. Even if civilizations exist, they either haven't reached us yet or have long since transcended into other forms of existence—virtual worlds, hibernation, or things we can't even notice. Or they simply don't find us interesting. There's a "radical ordinariness" hypothesis: other civilizations do exist, but they're not gods—just roughly like us, only a bit further along. No Dyson spheres or galactic empires. Signals might be narrowly directed, brief, in other spectra, or not electromagnetic at all. We've been listening to the sky for just a few decades—an instant by cosmic standards. Scientists don't agree on a single explanation right now. Many believe the paradox partly "dissolves" if we honestly account for the huge uncertainties in the Drake equation: the probability that we're alone in the Galaxy might not be so tiny. Others keep searching for biosignatures in exoplanet atmospheres and technosignatures—and so far, they find only silence. This is no longer an absence of data; it's data. Either life and intelligence are the rarest miracle, and we're nearly unique. Or intelligent civilizations are mostly short-lived. Or the Universe is full of those who deliberately stay silent. Either way, the silence isn't neutral background noise. It's information about how life, intelligence, and survival work on Galactic scales. And until we figure out where exactly the Great Filter lies, every one of our next steps carries more weight than it seems.

https://x.com/NorenNamert/status/2114916045551173968?s=20

Alex Taller

@AlexTaller2

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7h

Translated from Russian

In order for a civilization to signal to the cosmos, it must be technological. The technological phase of earthly civilization began with the Industrial Revolution and spans only a couple of centuries. The Industrial Revolution, like the Renaissance, is unique to the Christian world, which shows that the technological phase is not mandatory. It is unknown how long this phase will last. The universe may be teeming with civilizations, but their technological phases simply do not overlap in time. And those who are smarter than they are curious—yes, they remain silent: we can't even sort things out among ourselves. Read Stanisław Lem's *Summa Technologiae*.

intelligentdesign.org

 

Stephen C. Meyer

@StephenCMeyer

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22h

A growing number of scientists agree: Our universe and life were produced by intelligent design, not unguided evolution. This site exists to document the mounting scientific evidence for nature’s intelligent design. Through this site, you can explore the evidence for intelligent design for yourself. More at http://intelligentdesign.org

https://x.com/StephenCMeyer/status/2114025373927141837?s=20

Thalassophile Phil4.8

@gncv

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16h

See code on a screen and nobody says "unguided chemistry wrote this." DNA is digitally encoded, functionally specified information. Every time we trace information like that to its source, we find a mind. Yet the materialist insists the most sophisticated code we know of is the one exception. Who's really making the faith claim?

TJTS

@TJTS_book

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16h

Excellent - these scientists are revising the long-standing presumption that Intelligent Design may be dismissed as nonexistent. A more balanced view holds that neither Intelligent Design nor unguided evolution can be refuted, which better accords with the theological claim that God chooses to preserve human free will.

RJC 1776

@RJC1776US

Exactly. William Paley and Intelligent Design William Paley (1743–1805) was an English theologian and philosopher whose argument from design became one of the most influential historical foundations of modern discussions about Intelligent Design (ID). His central claim was that the complexity and apparent purposefulness of nature provide evidence of an intelligent creator, much as a complicated machine suggests a designer. 1. Paley’s famous watchmaker analogy In his 1802 book, Natural Theology, Paley asks readers to imagine finding a watch on the ground. His reasoning proceeds as follows: A watch has complex, organized parts. Its gears, springs, and hands work together to perform a function. That organization suggests a designer. We infer that an intelligent watchmaker created the watch rather than its parts assembling themselves by chance. Nature displays comparable organization. Living organisms have intricate structures, such as the eye, that perform specialized functions. Therefore, nature suggests a designer. Paley argued that the complexity and functional organization of living things provide evidence of an intelligent creator — whom he identified with God. His key analogy can be summarized simply: Watch : watchmaker :: living organism : creator Paley did not claim that organisms and watches are identical. His argument was that their apparent functional organization supports a similar inference to design. 2. How Paley’s argument relates to modern Intelligent Design Paley’s argument is an important historical precursor to the modern Intelligent Design movement, but the two are not identical. William Paley (1802) Modern Intelligent Design Argued that nature’s complexity indicates a creator. Argues that certain features of nature indicate intelligent causation. Explicitly identified the designer as God. Some proponents avoid identifying the designer in their scientific arguments. Used examples such as the eye and other biological structures. Often emphasizes molecular machinery, DNA, and biological complexity. Wrote within Christian natural theology. Includes contemporary debates about biology, philosophy, and science education. 3. Paley versus Darwin Charles Darwin (1809–1882) offered a different explanation for biological complexity in On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection explained how complex adaptations could develop through inherited variation and differential reproductive success over many generations, without requiring each adaptation to be separately designed. The distinction is important: Paley: Functional complexity in living things is evidence of an intelligent designer. Darwin: Natural selection provides a natural mechanism through which functional complexity can evolve. Darwin had studied Paley’s writings during his education at Cambridge. His theory subsequently challenged Paley’s explanation of biological adaptations. 4. What are the main objections to Paley’s argument? Objection 1: The analogy may be misleading. A watch is a known human artifact, whereas nature is not necessarily the same kind of thing. Similarity in complexity does not automatically establish similarity in origin. Objection 2: Natural selection explains adaptation. Structures that appear purposefully designed can evolve when inherited variations affect survival and reproduction. Objection 3: Design does not establish the designer’s identity. Even if one inferred that something had been designed, further argument would be needed to establish that the designer was the Christian God. These objections have been discussed extensively in philosophy of religion. 5. Why Paley still matters Paley remains relevant because his argument raises a fundamental philosophical question: Does the apparent design and complexity of the universe provide evidence of an intelligent creator, or can natural processes adequately explain it? Darwin was dead wrong.

Rob Mitchell

@MitchP85D

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1h

I think every scientist on earth would like to find out if the universe has a creator or not. I know I want to find out. I think there is a creator, but I’m not 100% convinced of that. Why not search for the answer to that question? Some people think we should put a wall between science and religion. That does nothing more than to shut off the pursuit of truth. Science is a mode of inquiry - not a belief structure according to Dr. Richard Lindzen. I don’t see anything wrong with scientists trying to discover if this “god-thing” exists or not. But for some peculiar reason, this offends a lot of people.