Higher math and Darwin (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, April 15, 2010, 15:40 (5335 days ago) @ dhw


> I seem to remember you saying once that mathematicians think differently from everyone else! The point of the chance v. design debate is to ascertain whether there may or may not be/have been a designer. Atheists believe that the original mechanism for life, reproduction, adaptability and innovation came about by chance. Most theists believe it was designed by God. Black and white. However, even with your scenario, my non-mathematical, agnostic mind has to ask you: "if at any point on the line of its history, one of these events" was designed, doesn't that mean there has to be/have been a designer? The question "how much is chance, and how much is design?" therefore becomes as irrelevant as a girl protesting her innocence because she is only slightly pregnant. If there is ANY design, there is/was a designer. The very real dilemma is therefore still between chance and design, not between proportions of each. -My thesis has ALWAYS been, without Matt's math niceties: the more complicated the mechanisms of life's controls become in our research findings, the less likely chance did it. Life IS complicated, and more so every day as new research appears. This article explains:-http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100331/full/464664a.html