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[Moontanman]

Originally Posted by questor

Moon, you have to think deeper. Chemical reactions do occur when certain substances contact each other. It's a matter of electron transfer and equlibrium according to individual valences of the combinants. In inorganic chemistry the reaction is spontaneous and occurs immediately upon contact. In organic compounds, the reaction may need a catalyst and/or heat. In living tissue the reactions for genetic replication are timed and seem planned. This is why they say genes contain information. They may occur at a certain time(baldness, puberty, genetic diseases), and under certain conditions. They are not spontaneous and occur with reason. Genetic activity is directed and time sensitive as if someone is controlling the process. It is not random or chaotic. Do a little homework on genetic chemistry and come to your own conclusions. I have never claimed that God has had a part in this and I have never claimed there is a God, but there is a reason.
I do not believe that anyone can answer these biochemistry questions at this time according to what I have read. If an expert can do so, I will abide by the truth.

I can think quite deeply thank you and I am quite well read, I do not agree with you. If indeed every time an organism was born it had to start from scratch you would almost certainly be correct but all the processes you talk about have been built on less complex processes for literally billions of years. Very little is absolutely new when it comes to life. Almost everything is recycled, what controls a process in organism now was almost certainly used to control something else millions of generations ago. Life uses things over and over to control various aspects of the biochemical process that is life. None of the processes you mention stand alone either now or in the past. All are supported and controlled by other processes. All of these processes can be traced back to simpler and less complex reactions but the line of decent is clear. Simple and complex, theses two concepts build on each other to produce what you call intelligent control. The reason these things happen is that if they didn't the genes would not be able to reproduce, this is why these processes happen, the genes are part of a positive feed back mechanism that produces the illusion of intelligent control.