Why describing DNA as “software” doesn’t really work

Check out Science Uprising 3. In contemporary culture, we are asked to believe – in an impressive break with observed reality – that the code of life wrote itself:

… mainstream studies are funded, some perhaps with tax money, on why so many people don’t “believe in” evolution (as the creation story of materialism). The fact that their doubt is treated as a puzzling public problem should apprise any thoughtful person as to the level of credulity contemporary culture demands in this matter.

So we are left with a dilemma: The film argues that there is a mind underlying the universe. If there is no such mind, there must at least be something that can do everything that a cosmic mind could do to bring the universe and life into existence. And that entity cannot, logically, simply be one of the many features of the universe.

Yet, surprisingly, one doesn’t hear much about mainstream studies that investigate why anyone would believe an account of the history of life that is so obviously untrue to reason and evidence.Denyse O’Leary, “There is a glitch in the description of DNA as software” at Mind Matters News

Maybe a little uprising wouldn’t hurt.

Here at UD News, we didn’t realize that anyone else had a sense of the ridiculous. Maybe the kids do?

See also: Episode One: Reality: Real vs. material

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Episode Two: No, You’re Not Robot made of Meat

Notes on previous episodes

Seven minutes to goosebumps (Robert J. Marks) A new short film series takes on materialism in science, including that of AI’s pop prophets

Science Uprising: Stop ignoring evidence for the existence of the human mind Materialism enables irrational ideas about ourselves to compete with rational ones on an equal basis. It won’t work (Denyse O’Leary)

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Does vivid imagination help “explain” consciousness? A popular science magazine struggles to make the case. (Denyse O’Leary)

Further reading on DNA as a code: Could DNA be hacked, like software? It’s already been done. As a language, DNA can carry malicious messages

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How a computer programmer looks at DNA And finds it to be “amazing” code

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