Is our existence a coincidence or is it by prior design? Is there a creator or is the universe the result of random events happening by pure change?. A very commonly asked question is: "Why are we here?" Shouldn't it rather be "How are we here?". The "WHY?" is only relevant if the "HOW?" was not a coincidence! This argument is central to our beliefs and determine our value system.

Is the development of LIFE the greatest wonder in nature? Most will agree it is. We all know what life is .

Did life started due to a set of random events happening by pure change or was there a guiding force behind it? Are we able to know? Was life only a coincidence? Is there a scientific way to test the possibilities. I think there is.

You can't prove all your beliefs but YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TEST THEM! How?. We can analyze the events leading to the formation of the first DNA molecule and the events that led to the further development of this molecule. We can calculate the probability for DNA and the coding system that it contains to develop spontaneously. (what was the odds for and against spontaneous events) What was statistically the most likely? A a guiding force behind the development of the DNA code or random occurring events.. Modern statisticians are certainly capable to give us answers.

What is the difference between a trial and error event and a pure random occurring event?

Our quest includes the following questions :

1 What was first proteins, RNA or DNA. 2 All biochemical reactions are initiated by enzymes. What was first the enzymes or DNA,( RNA ) (the chicken or the egg?)

2 Where did ethics , morality and integrity originated?

Our beliefs determine our value systems ( ethics). We wii try to determine the origin of ethics.

The following story illustrates how our beliefs might influence our actions.

The Shop Keeper and his Assistant.
It happened in a small rural town . It was during the summer of 1862. A young boy from a very poor family was lucky enough to find employment as shop assistant in a local shop . One day , about two months after he started as an assistant , somebody not known to the boy entered the shop. He was interested in buying a saddle. The boy showed him all the available saddles. The choice one and told the boy : " Put it on my account , young man." He than took the saddle and left.

The boy went to the office to enter the transaction and than remembered . He didn't enquire who the customer was. He made a terrible mistake. What should he do. Keep quiet . But the shopkeeper will eventually discover the missing stock. Reluctantly he decided to tell the truth. Sure that is was his last day as a shop assistant he he approached his boss and told him the whole story.
Great was his surprise when the shop keeper just laughed and said: "Don't worry my boy. Just enter the saddle against every customer on the books. If they complain when receiving the account just be sure to apologize very sincerely."
What happened. They had 200 creditors and eventually 10 paid for the saddle. The other 190 got a very sincere apology.

What do you regard as the correct action?
1 Fire the poor kid.
2 Subtract the money from his salary.
3 Give him warning and a second change.
4. It was the correct action under the circumstance. ( A very poor family needs the boy's salary and the shop keeper must also survive. He can't effort unnecessary losses)
5 It was the correct action no matter what the circumstances.
Which of these actions gives the business and its employers the best change of survival ( survival is a constant struggle and eventually we will all loose the struggle be be replaced) Perhaps you should regard it as two questions. Short term survival and long term survival.
What is the most important to the shop keeper. His or his customers survival. If he fires the boy or let him pay the community may regard him as a cruel inhuman capitalist. If warn him and let him off the hook his business suffers a loss.
The following story puts statistical analysis to the test. Is William Genius's explanation possible?

The case against William Genius

William Genius is a highly qualified and talented programmer working for a large software developing company. He was arrested and charged with the development and spreading of a computer virus known as The Opener. It is impossible to use any web browser on a computer infected with The Opener. As soon as a web browser is opened, The Opener goes berserk and keeps on opening web pages until the computer's memory is depleted.
All investigations lead to Genius's internet connection at his home. During a raid on his house the original source code of The Opener as well as code to spread it , were discovered on one of Genius's home computers . This lead to his arrest.
Genius's denies writing this virus. He is claiming that his computer wrote the program, all on his own. All the data and methods to create a program like The Opener was available on the computer. He is adamant that the program originated spontaneously on his computer without his knowledge. According to him the same thing happened in nature when life originated. Nature was even more skillful than his computer. The DNA code not only behave like a program, it even made it's own hardware.
The Opener and similar programs very easy to develop. Every time a browser is opened the keystrokes involved generate and activate the necessary actions via machine language. It was thus not a great achievement for the computer to develop The Opener virus.
He also states that The Opener had it easier than DNA. All the hardware and computer languages necessary for it to evolve already exist on the computer. (DNA had to produce and develop its own hardware). Computers are very fast and computes millions of of calculations per second. Changes that occur over many years in nature , happens in minutes on a computer. Millions of years in nature is comparable to days on a computer. Genius also claims that he used the specific programming in which The Opener originated, for five years. All his programs were continuously upgraded. The hardware used by him is also always the latest and most advanced. In spite of may upgrades , he data stayed intact . If automatic program writing occurred on his networked come computer system , it would continue at a even faster rate after each upgrade The virus had five years to develop spontaneously on his system. This five years is comparable to millions of years in nature. His computers are never switched of. He states thus that time was not a factor and that his computers always contain the latest available technology. He further states that random occurring chemical reactions produced a complex program known as life. The development of Life was much more complicated than that of The Opener, yet it is widely accepted that the origin and development of life was a completely random set of events, a coincidence. Nearly everybody beliefs in evolution but nobody wants to belief him. His postulation is however even more credible than evolution. How can one set of events being regarded as possible but another set of very similar events are regarded as impossible?
What do you think , is it statistically possible for a computer to develop a program without a programmer? Was it statistically possible for the DNA programming code to evolve on its own? The DNA code has an amazing knowledge of physics and chemistry. Its code is able to manufacture and simultaneously design software for the following devices to run amazingly well. Devices like digital cameras ( eyes), digital microphones (ears), incredible airplanes (birds) , ultrasonic guided airplanes (bats) etc. The DNA code have all the scientific and computer knowledge to develop these hardware and to simultaneously develop the software necessary to run these devices . They are immediately compatible with the processor (brain) It is important to note that for every step in evolution there was only one change to succeed. The software, the hardware and the processor had to be compatible immediately or that particular step was lost for ever. ( true for all random systems, there is no second chance in a random system).
Read al the pages in Part I before deciding,

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