If the information content in DNA is similar to a meaningful language as
some have said, then I think the answer to your question is yes.
Jeff
On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Garry DeWeese wrote:
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> On Mon, 11 Mar 1996, jeffery lynn mullins wrote:
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> > Garry,
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> > Indeed, if the SETI program were to obtain signals from other worlds that
> > are conclusively from a personal intelligence, they would count if as a
> > scientific discovery, and I don't think that the NSF would revoke their
> > funds for publishing a result that is non-scientific. I see no problem
> > with personal agency being used as an explanation in science, whether
> > natural or supernatural, if that is the way the event happened and the
> > evidence is obtained by objective evidence gathered by scientific means
> > (which I think anthropology gives an example of).
> >
> > Jeff
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> Jeff,
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> The SETI example is a good one. Should meaningful signals be received,
> the best explanation would be personal (agent causation). Is that
> analagous to the high information content in genetic material so very
> early in the history of life on earth?
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> Garry
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