The Data Storage Unit That Evolved From Nothing
Well, allegedly. You think sophisticated man-made computers and the amounts of data they store are a lot, just wait until you find out what’s inside you.
Looking at both digital memory and analog devices, the researchers calculate that humankind is able to store at least 295 exabytes of information. (Yes, that’s a number with 20 zeroes in it.)
Put another way, if a single star is a bit of information, that’s a galaxy of information for every person in the world. That’s 315 times the number of grains of sand in the world. But it’s still less than one percent of the information that is stored in all the DNA molecules of a human being.
If you found a disc drive in the middle of the jungle, you’d just know that it was man-made. But we have something far more capable (and small) inside of us, but that just worked itself out on its own. Riiight.
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Depends. Did the disc drive live close to its mother and father? Were they also in the jungle?
Paley’s watch test wasn’t simply that the watch worked, but that the watch clearly did not belong on the heath.
A computer disc drive doesn’t belong in the jungle. A human, however, may.
If you’re going to claim to be creationist, shouldn’t you at least study creationism to know what its theses and hypotheses are?
Simply being on the heath, blown there by some wind, would be the least of the complexities.
Ed,
If you’re going to confront Christians on doctrines of creation you’d think that pretty quickly you’d find that the statement “study creationism” is meaningless. Do you mean “study creationisms” in plural. There isn’t a singular doctrine. Many traditions (mine for example) allow great freedom regarding creation, pretty much if you stay in line with the Nicene Creed’s declarations you’re OK.