Ostronomos
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Can there be a being so powerful that its very intent dictates how reality unfolds and thus how our genetic code is programmed?
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Programming the genetic code
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Doubtful but if you happen to have his phone number i have a few questions to ask about genetic illnesses.
PureX
Veteran Member
I suspect that our imposing the idea of "a being" on the great mystery source, sustenance, and purpose of all that is, is a significant mischaracterization of the question.
Yes. Drop the article 'a' -- because a and the can create errors in identification.
That leaves us with Being. Being = existence, pure consciousness, pure Anand
@Ostronomos , you can safely say this :
Primordial Source of all [secondary, tertiary, Nth] sources
Primordial Cause of all [secondary, tertiary, Nth] causes
So what happens is , the cause of all causes can spawn and manifest and BECOME
Being => Becoming => while staying untouched by side-effects, like a lotus leaf.
Yazata
Active Member
That's basically the old creationism vs evolution question.
I'm not sure what work the phrase "can there be" is doing there.
Is it asking whether it's possible that biological organisms were created and their genetic code written by some divine coder?
Maybe it's possible. (I don't really know where the dividing line between possibility and impossibility lies.)
But I don't know of any convincing reason to believe that any sort of cosmic programmer exists or that it had any role in the design of biological organisms.
Actually I think that there's evidence that the genetic code of existing organisms is a bit of a kludge produced by stochastic processes combined with natural selection. Evidence for that might include gene duplication, transposons and repeats.
