EXPLAIN THIS: Where Did the First Living Cell’s DNA Come From?

A central issue in the continuing debate between advocates of Evolutionary Naturalism (EN) and those pointing to Intelligent Design (ID) is that of “irreducible complexity,” or the dilemma of necessarily multi-sequential development.

Put simply, the issue is EN posits development of changes in life forms come about through step-by-step adaption as those that contribute to survival are retained and those that don’t are left behind.

But what about life forms whose development necessarily requires two or more sequential changes in order to continue? And whence comes the DNA necessary for the life form to come about in the first place?

Or, as Cross-Examined’s Dr. Frank Turek puts it, irreducible complexity is “the argument that certain biological systems cannot have evolved by successive small modifications to pre-existing functional systems through natural selection because no less complex system would function.”

In the following 5:37 video, Turek discusses the issue with ID advocates Dr. Scott Minnich and Dr. Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute:

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