But if you are talking the big bang creating all life and all that stuff. It's not possible. Becuase if you change one thing on tiny in signifigant 1 to a 0 in our genetic code or in the genetic code of the earth water could turn to lava. or soil could turn to solid rock, and the earth would be uninhabitable.
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Let's see, and volcanoes are pimples, and moon's are little baby planets, and comets are viruses and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz......
Why do they not learn from each others mistakes? Only biological substances contain DNA and/or RNA. Rocks and water and the likes do not.
I read this nice piece on possibility/probability a while ago. It says that anything that you can imagine and does not contradict itself (like square cirkels) is POSSIBLE. But Just because you can imagine it does not mean it is PROBABLE. It is possible that Jesus was an alien, for I can imagine it and it does not contradict. But is is not probable that jesus was an alien. Therefore we assume that he was human.
For the part about possibility/probability see:
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/probable.html
For the whole text see:
The Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Jesus.
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/jesus.html
Seeing the name of the forum, my guess is that this guy was taking the Gaia hypothesis too literally. He thought that if the earth was "alive" as Gaiaists say it must have a genetic code and all the other features of ordinary living creatures.
I think Gaia is a metaphor with little scientific value, but even taken seriously it does not have the crazy consequences that Corrwin thinks.
xMinionX
What do you MEAN you don't have digital DNA??! EVERYONE has that nowadays! I was born with boring organic DNA made of proteins, but I've upgraded to DigiNA, version 4.6.1 and it's working great, but it doesn't support metamorphosis, so I'm thinking of upgrading again.
Whatever you do, DON'T get WinDNA. It'll just crash and cause sickle cell disease or blue-vision or something. Someone needs to tell Bill Gates that having money to invest doesn't guarantee a good product. Of course, if you're into it, you can always get UnixNA. UnixNA lets you customize and manipulate your own genetics, so you can give yourself all sorts of cool stuff.
Considering all the weird postings this month containing bastardizations of science, I might have thought it was too early to give an award in this category; but now that I've read it, I have to agree that while this level of silliness *might* be equalled, I cannot imagine it being exceeded. Astounding.
~David D.G.
Holy fuck. I've always hypothesised that the average intelligence of the posters at a forum is inversely proportional to the average size of the signatures of those posters. Those guys have 100kB pictures, and posts like this (in a thread called "Evoloution: Fact Or Fiction" no less), so that's another win for my hypothesis!
*That* explains it! I made a mistake on a math quiz once, and wrote a zero instead of a one, and I crapped ice cream for a week! Then the teacher corrected the paper and everything went back to normal.
At least, I think that's what happened. Things that happened before the shock treatments are a little hazy. I was kidnapped and given DigiNA as a secret government experiment. This was a long time ago, so it's MS DosNA. You would not believe the freaky things that have happened! 16-bit reality looks like Dig/Dug!
Wow. A 31 word sentence, and it managed to misinterpret computer science, genetics, and geology. Not only misinterpret, but think they're all very closely related.
If you want to shoehorn DNA in a digital mindset, Corrwin, that's fine, but it is if anything quaternary (base 4 -- adenine, cytosine, guianine and thymine), not binary. The Matrix is fiction. Somewhat profound, granted (a cyberpunk retelling of Plato's Allegory of the Cave) but still fiction.
In any case, congratulations for so thoroughly misunderstanding biology and geology you deserve some kind of booby prize.
Can someone please genetically engineer the soil in my garden into chocolate mousse? Pleeeeeze?
Well, that would be easier than transforming the sludge between the average fundie's ears into a brain.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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