E. Coli vs. Linux (Humans)

by David Turell , Monday, May 24, 2010, 16:57 (5296 days ago) @ dhw


> David's argument is that the mechanism of life and evolution is so complex that he believes it was designed. However, neither you nor I see life and evolution as having a goal to develop without design (the history).-Gould referred to humans as a glorious accident based on an enormous series of chance contingencies. Running the tape of life again and we would certainly not appear. I can't believe any of that.-
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>The claim, then, that life and evolution from our perspective are undirected, are heading nowhere in particular, and have no goal has no connection with the claim that God designed the original mechanism. -I can accept the idea that God (UI)set up the genetic mechanism to advance to complexity; that gives us some teleology and some initial design, if one designates that humans are not expected. This is probably where we will differ. I think humans were planned for.-->
> The more general, abstract sense in my view simply leads straight back to David's argument: the economic interactions of molecules which over time produce complex ecological (not to mention biological) systems are the result of original mechanisms so complex that it is difficult to believe they are not the result of design. And so round we go again. -Very difficult, isn't it!