Prions
coyote
I checked a few web sources for Prions and protein particles
Here is what one source says:
"A gene for the normal protein has been isolated: the PRNP gene.[32] Prion diseases can be inherited, and in all inherited cases there is a mutation in the PRNP gene. Many different PRNP mutations have been identified and it is thought that the mutations somehow make PrPC more likely to spontaneously change into the abnormal PrPSc form."
Prions are a product of DNA.
Strike 2
Your statement that "DNA could easily have evolved naturally " is typical of evolutionist thinking but is indefensible. No evolution is easy.
And until you can point out just one code/language that you can prove evolved naturalistically without intelligence actually exists, you haven't established that it is even possible.
I discussed the ridiculously low probabilities of DNA aranging itself in the proper order without intelligence. If you think that 1 chance out of 4 to the 4 millionth power is possible, so be it. I can't suspend my brain enough to accept such odds as reasonable.
There are no examples of codes/languages arising without design. And the odds of complex codes happening by chance are virtuially zero. So assuming the existence of a designer is a reasonable conclusion. Certainly it is more scientifically defensible than assuming DNA beat incredible odds and "just happened".
And what is your anwer to my charge that evolution violates the entropy law of thermodynamics and violates the first law of biogenesis? Both of these laws have been verified, something that evolution can't say. So why accept an unverified THEORY when it requires the violation of 2 verifed laws?
As to your question about God's designer, the answer is I don't know. The Bible says God always existed. I understand you can't accept any statement from the Bible at face value but there is scientific evidence of the Bible's assertion.
Some physicists today accept a modified "Steady State" theorem that states the universe has always existed. While the Big Bang is the prevalent theory today, the Steady Staters go before the BB event and believe the matter and energy that fueled the Big Bang has always existed. In other words, the BB was not the beginning of everything but only our present universe.
If the universe has always existed, why not the designer?
And as for Evolution as a hypothesis rather than theory, the scientific process follows a logical order:
1. A hypothesis is proposed which seems to explain the evidence.
2. Initial data and observations are analyzed to see if the hypothesis explains all the data. If it doesn't, the hypothesis is modified to explain all the data or it is deep sixed. If it does explain all the data, the hypothesis is elevated to theory status.
3. Until a hypothesis explains all the data, it is not considered to be a theory.
4. Some theories can be tested (such as clinical drug testing) and may eventually be accepted as scientific fact.
The gaping holes in evolutionary theory are enough to relegate evolution to hypothesis status, which is a condition of lower reliability than a theory. Simply put, Evolution does not explain all the data. And the data that Evolution can't explain is growing daily. On a reliability scale, Evolution is going backwards. Evolution can never achieve the staus of #4 above (scientific fact).
coyote, the ship your'e on is sinking. Get off while you can. Or drown. Your choice.
