Ch 16, A mad world (A mad world)

by David Turell , Saturday, December 08, 2012, 00:40 (4149 days ago) @ hyjyljyj

hy: 
 They believe, however, that if they ever can consciously and deliberately design such an organism, it will prove that they themselves were not designed. 
 This is just absolutely brilliant, especially the italicized part.-Even if they conjure up an RNA world and make something alive, they cannot make that conclusion, for that invented life is an 'intellgent design' and even if it acts life-like that is no proof of how lfe really happened. we cannot truly know that bit of history, but the useless research sucks up lots of grant money. 60 years of such research and we only know what won't work. But each new 'advance' is cheered as if the answer is right around the corner. 
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> hy:BTW, is one still agnostic who has made a firm decision to side with the design camp over the random-chance camp? I'm more in favor of design also, but only because everything "appears" to me to have been designed. Things bear the hallmark of intentionality rather than haphazardness when, for example, a tiny animal is capable of constructing a perfectly symmetrical web of a material five times stronger than steel from inside its abdomen, then knows to sit and WAIT for a meal to fly into it rather than go hunt like most other animals. -Why not accept intelligent design if you really feel that way?-> 
> hy:So comforting knowing we'll never know the truth until after we're dead...if at all. Mystery makes life more interesting than Catholic cannibalism does, in my opinion.-Fair enough. But I think you and I will discuss it telpathically in the afterlife.