Is DNA Designed?

[Aloysium]

Why did you phrase it that way?

Because it was the best way to verbalize the concept.

Reality is not an illusion. It includes a self and an object to which we relate - it has a triune nature.
That part of the relationship, that which constitutes our perceptions, feelings and thought about and actions upon the other, if taken as reality, cannot be but illusory. We should always be aware that we do not have the whole picture. That picture is like a spark between the two unfathomable poles of self and other.

Then any reality that you wake up to must also be a dream.

Waking up is synonymous in my books with love, a giving of oneself to what is other. It is in that giving that we as relational beings, enter into communion with that other, and at that point we truly know.

The only thing that it can ever know for certain…is that I am.

The only thing that I know for certain is that God exists.

 

[rossum]

The only thing that I know for certain is that God exists.

Cogito ergo sum? If “I” know then “I” also exists. If you “know” then knowledge also exists. If God exists then existence also exists.

You need to analyse your statement more fully. For example, your statement in in a language, so language also exists.

rossum

 

[Aloysium]

You need to analyse your statement

What is needed is an elaboration.

As you rightly state, language exixts.
It does so as part of our relational nature.
The question then has to do with the nature of Relationality.

There is creation that exists in relation to God.
This relationship exists and is brought into being by Him.
Returning what has been given to us, we enter into communion with the Source of all there is.

We can think too much, or too little I suppose, and simply not, as corny as it may sound, just be.

 

[rossum]

As you rightly state, language exixts.

Then you know that language exists as well as God. Your earlier statement was incomplete, or do you not know for certain that language exists?

rossum

 

[Aloysium]

God does not exist so much, as He is Existence. And, language exists, unable to communicate what a person does not already know, and especially that which transcends words. You keep harping on this same issue. Contemplate what is written in scripture, yours and ours.

 

[Aloysium]

the trinitarian nature of solipsism

Everything exists in relation to everything else and ultimately to its Cause, which is triune in nature, perfect Relationality, Divine Love. We have been made in the image of God and in Jesus Christ, we are brought into communion within the Trinity.

Not wanting to derail the thread, I should contribute an opinion as to whether DNA is designed.

From the statement above, we can consider any material body as being brought into existence in the moment. Since it has not always existed, there would be a beginning to that creation.

We might think of the universe as a Divine thought or, perhaps better, a symphony. I can’t say I’m satified with the idea of a transcendent Designer; Artist and Creator of beauty is more appealing. Father, of course. But since we are talking about the building blocks, the material substrate that is utilized in forming a person, rather than that which makes us human, our spirit, perhaps “design” is appropriate at that level of being.