Do you really believe life evolved by chance?

Scientists dumbstruck: signs of intelligent design in DNA code
Bio-scientists are reeling at the implications of new research published in the prestigious planetary science journal Icarus, which indicates the DNA code of all life on earth contains a pattern that indicates deliberate design.

Scientists are comparing it to the famous “Wow” announcement for Carl Sagan’s SETI programme scanning the heavens for extra-terrestrials picked up a highly unusual signal that’s never been explained or repeated.

In this case, planetary scientists turned the SETI principle to scanning the DNA genome, wondering if it would give clues to the unsolved question of how life arose on Earth.

“As the actual scenario for the origin of terrestrial life is far from being settled, the proposal that it might have been seeded intentionally cannot be ruled out. A statistically strong intelligent-like “signal” in the genetic code is then a testable consequence of such scenario,” the Icarus reseachers note.

What they found when they looked was stunning: a message:

“Here we show that the terrestrial code displays a thorough precision-type orderliness matching the criteria to be considered an informational signal.Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of the same symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing rather than of stochastic processes (the null hypothesis that they are due to chance coupled with presumable evolutionary pathways is rejected with P-value < 10-13). The patterns display readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality, among which are the symbol of zero, the privileged decimal syntax and semantical symmetries. Besides, extraction of the signal involves logically straightforward but abstract operations, making the patterns essentially irreducible to natural origin. Plausible ways of embedding the signal into the code and possible interpretation of its content are discussed. Overall, while the code is nearly optimized biologically, its limited capacity is used extremely efficiently to pass non-biological information.”

Stripped of its scientific language, what the researchers believe they have found a message hidden in the DNA code of all living organisms that cannot be explained by chance, and which strongly adheres to the principles of mathematics and human language concepts, displaying “readily recognizable hallmarks of artificiality”.

The identity of any designer – whether alien or supernatural – remains unknown, but the study is groundbreaking in its implications.
http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/3371/scientists-dumbstruck-signs-of-intelligent-design-in-dna-code/

Icarus
Volume 224, Issue 1, May 2013, Pages 228–242
The “Wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103513000791

Anonymous2014-02-23T15:11:30Z

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No, it did not evolve by chance. It couldn't have -

"Dr. John Sanford, a retired Cornell Professor, shows in Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome that the "Primary Axiom" is false. The Primary Axiom is the foundational evolutionary premise - that life is merely the result of mutations and natural selection. In addition to showing compelling theoretical evidence that whole genomes can not evolve upward, Dr. Sanford presents strong evidence that higher genomes must in fact degenerate over time. This book strongly refutes the Darwinian concept that man is just the result of a random and pointless natural process."

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Newms342014-02-24T10:03:12Z

"Stripped of its scientific language, what the researchers believe they have found a message hidden in the DNA code of all living organisms that cannot be explained by chance"
No, what they have discovered is that, over eons, the DNA code has optimized itself to the point that it's very efficient. The pieces that were inefficient have been naturally selected against. It's basic high school biology.
I love the part where they attempt to bullshit their "null hypothesis" by saying the "null hypothesis [is] that they are due to chance". That's not evolution at all. The rest of their paper is utter crap, as they show a basic lack of understanding about the basic concepts of evolution. They may be brilliant astrophysicists, but as much as this paper shows, they're poor biologists (or "bio-scientists" as your article calls them).
Here's an article by someone utterly demolishing the tin-foil-hat numerology that your article claims is "evidence":
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/03/15/the-genetic-code-is-not-a-synonym-for-the-bible-code/

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Dane2014-02-23T15:07:58Z

Yes. Do you really believe the bronze-age desert tribe that wrote the Bible knew more about geology and the beginnings of the universe than all of the greatest minds of the modern era put together?

Also, you can't "find" signs of design in anything. That's just another "God of the gaps" fallacy. Your argument is essentially, "I don't understand it, so God must have done it".

If that's how you're going to bring down all of the modern day theories on how the universe began, then you can get the hell off the internet.

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?2014-02-23T15:48:39Z

Apparently, the research on how inorganic atoms were natrally attracted to other inorganic atoms, which formed inorganic molecules, which eventually formed replicaating organicmolecules, was good enough to win Dr. Jack Szostak the Nobel Prize in science.
And you can gain a lot of fame by simply doing better research, and proving him wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6QYDdgP9eg

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daicactus2014-02-23T15:24:00Z

So why hasn't this research captured the imagination of the whole world? I wonder if it's anything to do with doubtful veracity of the claims? Let's be honest here. If these findings were undisputed then why doesn't anyone other than a couple of "journals" proclaim the so called breakthough?

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