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Atheists: a software can not transform to a hardware, DNA cannot transform in to a living thing?

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  • 4 years ago

    I suspect you were trying to be intelligent here, or at least unstupid, but you failed.

  • Mack
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Dna is not software, it is like software.

  • Gary B
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    And, s computer HARDWARE needs software to make it do something useful, LIFE needs the "instructions" coded in the DNA to make raw chemicals "come to life".

    DNA is not life, but DNA is the "instruction book" that The Creator wrote to make life.

  • 4 years ago

    Right, and wrong.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    True and sort of true in one sense. As no one is making that point, one wonders what exactly your point is? Unless you are straw manning abiogenesis.

    Life is not a distinct thing, it is a sub set of chemistry. Specifically it is an exergonic chemical reaction. It’s the energy releasing redox reaction responsible for the metabolism that allows life to exist.

    And we know cell walls form automatically on their own due to hydrophobic and hydrophilic reactions. And RNA forms automatically given sufficient RNA bases. 2 major components of cellular life forming simply due to chemistry.

    Complex, intelligent, most perfect being can't just exist in a void for no reason whatsoever. So we have evidence you don't like. You have a most improbable assertion you have to deny.

    Do you see your problem, yet?

  • ?
    Lv 5
    4 years ago

    Well... that tenuously describes firmware, So yeah.. it can. And DNA did transform into a living thing. The issue is in determining how the bases formed, but we know its possible. There have been many experiments to determine such things.

  • 4 years ago

    Huh?

    Why should DNA not transform into a living thing?

    Please look at this, it is a very simple mechanical computer:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Med34kodqA

    Now ask yourself, what is the difference between hardware and software? Where do you draw the line?

    Basically you have no idea of what DNA and RNA does and how. Asking this here in R&S instead of the biology section shows that you are not interested in an actual answer and you just want to state a point.

    Edit: You also obviously have no idea of how processors and micro controllers and other integrated circuits are made. We describe them in/as software. You want to google 'Verilog' and 'VHDL'. There is no clear difference between hard and software. You can run the same thing as a simulation and it behaves just as the hardware.

  • 4 years ago

    But a lump of clay can turn into a person?

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    So you've never heard of FPGAs.

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