Faith Well Grounded

I saw the below article at cyberkitten's blog. I decided to form a brief response to each point of the article, as originally seen:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-op-harris24dec24,0,3994298.story?...

10 myths—and 10 Truths—About Atheism

By Sam Harris for The Los Angeles Times

December 24, 2006

A word about directionality: Evolution does not have a direction. Organisms can go towards complexity or simplicity. It's all determined by the environment and selection pressures. Just because humans are complex multi-cellular animals doesn't mean we've had the most evolution. Every living creature today is the result of the same amount of evolutionary time.

With all of the talk of information in the genomes, the natural question arises:

If DNA is a storage medium for information, doesn't that indicate a designer? DNA encodes and decodes information based on an alphabet. It even contains error-checking.

DNA as a natural process is like accepting the natural formation of the TCP/IP protocol.

I was recently taken to task for making reference to the fabled 747/tornado argument during a discussion of abiogenesis.

The comment read:

Please don't bring that old canard up. It's really beneath you. Anyone who thinks that is analogous to the way evolution (and these hypotheses of abiogenesis) works is only displaying a profound lack of understanding of the most basic concepts.

The various discussions here centered around evolution have often come back to my (and others') distinction between micro and macro evolution. EDogg stated the evolutionist's mindset very well in a recent comment, in that he makes no distinction between micro and macro evolution. We see changes now, thus these small changes over a vast amount of time equate to macro evolution. Small changes add up.

The Evolutionists: the Struggle for Darwin's Soul, Richard Morris, pg 97...