Every living organism on Earth uses the information storing properties of either DNA or RNA to store its genetic code. This is what makes life and heredity possible. The human genome is estimated to contain around 3.2 billion base pairs. A base pair in DNA is a specific pairing of one of the four base nucleotides with its complement: Adenine (A), Cytosine (C), Guanine (G), and Thymine (T). These bases form specific pairs. A pairs with T and G pairs with C.
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@danielbsmith
yes.
human knowledge is finite and fallible. it doesn't follow from the fact that it is so, that god must exist as also conceived by fallible finite human minds.
as with the revelations of the WEBB about the boundaries and failures of human theories, it's another prick in another balloon of hubris. the human mind cannot fathom the unutterable depths of the Mystery.
i agree that faith is part of human psychology, perceptual faith for one. but believing doesn't make it so. ever.
@holon42 I hope you kept reading all the way to the end.
yes, i read the entire thread.
@holon42 I think then that you and I differ a bit in our focus. I perceive that you prefer the mystery of the universe whereas I prefer to know how it works.
But the latter doesn't preclude the former. Far from it in fact. As a believer I understand that God wants us to explore the world and to marvel at His handiwork.
Consider that one reason for God to create the entire universe was to give us a nice place to live and a beautiful starry sky to look at each night.
i prefer:
"All beings originate from the creativity of Heaven, so all are transformations of the path of Heaven. Being transformations of the path of Heaven, each has the great function of the whole body of the path of Heaven, and is not just a small portion of the effective capacity of Heaven.
Every being contains the totality of the path of Heaven and can preserve unity with universal harmony. Every being contains the function of origination from the creativity of Heaven."
@danielbsmith
here's one scholar's work on describing the "how" process:
"All great religions used the light as a symbol of transcendence and characteristic of divinity, talking about “divine spark that is inside us”. Light indicates the life; the symbol of light pervades the Bible from the first to the last page, it is the principle of creation. God has been called in various ways, but the light is the metaphor used to talk about His nature."
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"From the point of view of physics, the light is an electromagnetic wave; the electromagnetic force is one of the four fundamental forces known today. Recent insights consider our physical universe as appeared by a phase-like transition from a universe with 10 space-time dimensions. Relatively to a new appeared model, called B-DS model, consciousness would be created by the electromagnetic field in relation to the SU(6) x U(1) symmetry group."
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"The human brain is conceived as an interface organ receiving informations, an element of interference from incoming data and already existing data (the subject’s memory)."
article available at:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/338554768_Origin_of_consciousness_and_contemporary_physics
@holon42 No complaints here. It's interesting stuff. I will just say that if we are living in a simulation then we are unable to distinguish any difference between that and the real world. The two are effectively identical. Consequently, we still have to respond to the question of God's existence.
@danielbsmith
no simulation claim.
systems and their gods are the conceptual mind grasping at experience, trying to control it.
the point is to break through all phenomena by questioning whether they arise from themselves, from something else, from both themselves, and something else, or from no cause.
when you push this inquiry on and on over and over, you realize it CANNOT be grasped.
You don't need to seek out the point of arising—that is to say any god—anymore.
humans are story telling animals. there's a wealth of such stories from all cultures. some are more interesting, some more edifying.
for example, the story of the prodigal son and of a prince who offered to suffer for the sins of his people trace back to the Lotus Sutra and the Avatamsaka sutra, written in the 1st century BCE.
stories, with morals and wisdom, but stories. the human mind tends to mistake its ideas for ultimate reality. that's its Achilles' heel.