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[quote=Anonymous]There seem to be at least two airtight answers to the "syllogism" above, setting aside whether DNA is itself a code.

1. Honey bee dances, human language, and whalesong, among other things, are all codes that were not consciously designed, so premise 2 fails.  (Rejoinder - but those are all derivative of DNA.  Counterrejoinder - the rejoinder is only true if you can show that bee dances are actually coded in bee DNA, which nobody has shown.  Therefore bee dances are a code that we do not know the origin of.)

2. Even if DNA were the only code that we do not know the origin of, that does not mean that it must be the same as those we do know the origin of (that is, designed by a mind).  To illustrate, take the following syllogism (assume we are in the 16th century Europe) : 1. All swans we know of are white.  2. This animal is black. 3. Therefore this animal is not a swan.  The syllogism is false because there could be (and are) swans that are not white, even though none had been observed in 16th century Europe.
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