[chezlaw]

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It's apparently perfectly acceptable that scientists at SETI search for inteligent life by sending repetitive patterns blindly into space hoping to get a response.

Ok I can accept that as a form of science.

What they are sending is basically information, prime numbers etc. Knowing that something intelligent has to create the information we hope to receive.

We know intelligence creates information rich systems. No other naturalistic explanation can account for the cause of these systems(as of yet). So finding a return pattern from space would be exciting. To date no luck.

DNA has been said to process, and store more information than anything in the known universe. Since this is such an information rich system can't we suppose that intelligence had something to do with the creation of this system?

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This looks like leading to a similar bogus discussion as the 'cause of the universe' question. The (faulty) premise this time looks to be.

Seti looks for complex information
Scientists believe such complex information would require an intelligent originator.
Therefore all complex information requires an intelligent originator.

Perhaps we can avoid going down a long song and dance about the complexity of DNA and see if we all agree the above argument isn't valid.

Then we could discuss what sort of complex information requires an intelligent creator and then we could discuss if DNA is that sort of complex information.

That way we might actually make some progress in understanding each others point of view.

chez