Book review of Nature\'s I.Q. (Evolution)

by David Turell , Saturday, September 12, 2009, 19:35 (5359 days ago) @ xeno6696


> If THAT is true, then we're smarter than the creator. There are some biochemical processes that would give the same outputs with less energy and work. -We don't know if that statement is true. Remember the argument over the design of the retina. Ours is backwards in its layers, but it has the advantage of better energy delivery. Perfect design is not optimal design. 
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> > > I just can't find a teleology for life.-> 
> Who or what then... is doing that willing? -I've admitted that all I can do is theorize that an intelligence has to be behind all this, because I don't think this universe or our life is all a sequence of accidents, the number of which approaches infinity. (Penrose guesses at 10^-300 just for the universe.)