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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

And in the scenario of messages being passed and received he is referring to dna code being passed between splitting cells, which as we know, when those dna codes are corrupted what do we get? Certainly not advancement - we get regression / deformity etc.

 

You keep coming back to the assumption that any change in the DNA sequence must be a regression/deformity, but that is because you are coming at it from the standpoint that every species was created separately and perfectly to be exactly what it was for as long as it existed. Scientificlly there is no logical reason why some mutations should not be an improvement and in fact it is exactly how evolution occurs. The changes are so tinyhowever that the individual who first carries this mutated gene looks and behaves exactly like all its contemporaries, but if  the offspring of that individual interbreed or breed with another individual who carries the same mutation then over hundreds of generations those mutations will become more pronounced; and if it is a difference that gives those individuals  a slight advantage over their contemporaries then those differences wil eventually come to predominate in the group or species.

 

 DNA is not a message which has to be decoded, it is the ingredients- building block if you like -  that make any living thing what it is, so of course it is going to be replicted in each generation of any species. 

 

And when I say DNA evolved I am assuming (and if I am wrong I'm sure someone can correct me) that the DNA sequence of the very first microscopic organism was not anywhere near as complex as the DNA sequence of a human being.

 

But how can DNA improve itself - ie get bigger and more complex?

 

Under the Creationism theory God started start out with one massive  'code' to account for every single living thing that would ever exist and then implanted the appropriate bits of that code into each species as he created them.  In Evolution there didn't have to be one  massive code that would eventually account for every living thing, All there had to be was the genetic code for one microscopic organism.

 

I didn't know that. Why could God have not created single celled animals first and then progressed to bigger and better creations, as the Bible says He did?

 

I set out to have a discussion and analyse evolutionary theories and get people's input about the site I quoted, but it seems that no-one can just say : "well, he's wrong about this ... because ..." - it has, as usual, degraded into 'creationists are idiots' and 'evolutionists are the only sane people' - so, I give up.

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