I get email — flu brain edition
Pharyngula 2025-02-19
I got email from someone calling himself “devoted natural science diletant”, criticizing me for paying attention to Intelligent Design creationism, a fair cop. I think he’s expressing a secular, scientific perspective, but I can’t read it, my brain starts sputtering and sparking as I try to plow through the all-caps stuff.
WHY HAVE YOU SO MUCH OF THIS “INTELLIGENT DESIGNER – STUFF” ? IT HAS THE SAME TREND, THAN “INFORMATION FIRST” SCENARIOS. I THINK AS MANY OTHER, THAT AT THE BEGINNING WAS SOME WIDE-SPREAD METABOLIC AND CATALYTIC ELEMENTS, LAYERED ON GROUND LIKE SILICON AND CLAY-ASHES AND PORES – ON CRATON ISLANDS – HAVING WETTED – DRIED, COOLED – WARMED – ENERGY-GRADIENTS + ELECTROMAGNETIC-NANO-SCALE-FORCES BRINGING PEPTIDE BONDS BETWEEN PRIMARY AMINO-ACID CHAINS . THIS COULD HAVE BEEN THE STUFF, what came first – before there was any INFORMATION ELEMENTS like RNA or DNA . I MEAN that the primary substance of LIFE and its primary catabolics and collective autocatalytics with interactions, must have PRECEDED this INFORMATIVE ORGANIZATION – there must be SOMETHING from where the information can CONDUCT ITS “ALPHABETS” ! SO THIS “DESIGNER” – was the beginning of CELL-like differentiation of OUTER and INNER environments. SO first AGENTIAL LIFE began maybe after many TRIALS in different places and times in EARTH HISTORY – and they were COLLECTIVE POPULATIONS at first without INFORMATIVE structures. When these PROTO-CELLS came bigger – they begin SPONTANEOUSLY divide smaller – (maybe) – the difficult part are from where came those ion-conducting MEMBRANE CHANNELS – which at first had HYDROGEN-or SODIUM -gradients and outer/inner DYNAMIC HOMEOSTASIS.
He sent me a follow-up to make sure I’d read it.
I SEND THIS COMMENT TO YOU. WHAT DO YOU THINK OF “INTELLIGENT DESIGNER” NOWADAYS.
OK. Does he think I favor intelligent design? Do I need to use more random capitalization to get my message through?