RNA = A totally Mindless Activity?
Jun 19, 2019 2:14:26 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Jun 19, 2019 2:14:26 GMT -5
RNA = A totally Mindless Activity?
While reading this article on RNA, I could not help but notice how the writer uses the following terms in reference to RNA while expecting us to consider it a result of a mindless process:
1. Controlling, gene expression [It controls!]
2. Sensing, [It senses!]
3. communicating, [ It communicates!]
4. Directing, [ It directs!]
5. Delivering, [It delivers!]
6. Linking, [ It links!]
7. Coding [It codes!]
8. Synthesizing [It synthesizes!]
9. Forming [It forms!]
10. Translation [ It translates!]
11. Regulation [It regulates!]
12. Processing [It processes!]
Which inevitably begs the question as to why these RNA molecules are doing all this if they are totally not anticipating the other sequences that will follow and provide meaning to its contribution. After all, these COORDINATED steps or activities are crucial in sustaining life and the only way they could form such a sequence of cooperating activities, is if the RNA itself was aware or if organizing directing awareness were in charge. Otherwise the intricate dovetailing of functions towards a goal or purpose makes no sense. It would be like saying that all the parts of a machine came together one by one by happy coincidences or mere chance with absolutely no planning involved. Yet that is exactly what the writer wants us to do since he relates all these things to the prebiotic idea of abiogenesis.
Yet, simply mentioning the mindless process of abiogenesis doesn't offer a satisfactory explanation for this compelling display of activity towards a purpose. Instead it just tells us to believe that SOMEHOW in some infinitely MYSTERIOUS and undecipherable WAY planning and mind is manifested without there being any planning or or any mind at all involved.;
In other words, they ask us to place our critical thinking on hold and exercise blind faith because to reach the logical conclusion that awareness and a mind are the only justifiable and viable conclusions is unacceptable to them. In short, they want us to share their aversion to the concept of intelligent design because they believe that then they would have to consider the intelligent designer God.
Excerpt:
Some RNA molecules play an active role within cells by catalyzing biological reactions, controlling gene expression, or sensing and communicating responses to cellular signals. One of these active processes is protein synthesis, a universal function in which RNA molecules direct the synthesis of proteins on ribosomes. This process uses transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules to deliver amino acids to the ribosome, where ribosomal RNA (rRNA) then links amino acids together to form coded proteins.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA
------------------------------------------------------------------------------