Intelligent design; pre-planning (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, November 12, 2011, 15:09 (4738 days ago) @ dhw

I fear that Abel may finally have lost patience with me and my questions, but each post brings new revelations that make little sense to me.

It’s obvious from what you’ve written that the immediate threat to humanity comes not from its own stupidity, but from this band of vicious Christian thugs. So why don’t the gods who created and sent the aliens in the first place do something to correct their own appalling blunder before it’s too late?

Abel has turned this intellectual exercise of debate into a scifi jungle. I'll bet he was born of man and woman, has DNA, and all the other body parts we all have. His fanciful stories are fun to read, and perhaps it is good from time to time to be less serious and just explore what might be imagined. Perhaps his imagined life would be a great autobiogaphical read! Like Starwars, only better: Abel Skywalker!

Perhaps I have been too serious, presenting interesting new science. Note my next entry for pre-planning:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S22/60/95O56/index.xml?section=topstories

Note the preposterous statements in the article to protect standard Darwinism:

"Standard evolutionary theory offered no clues. Applying the concepts of control theory, a body of knowledge that deals with the behavior of dynamical systems, the researchers concluded that this self-correcting behavior could only be possible if, during the early stages of evolution, the proteins had developed a self-regulating mechanism, analogous to a car's cruise control or a home's thermostat, allowing them to fine-tune and control their subsequent evolution. The authors sought to identify the underlying cause for this self-correcting behavior in the observed working on formulating a new general theory based on this finding they are calling "evolutionary control."

First they note the 'pre-planned' aspect of the mechanism. (bold) And then they bail out of their original thinking by saying M&NS are the only possible origin of this finding, again bold:

Chakrabarti said that one of the aims of modern evolutionary theory is to identify principles of self-organization that can accelerate the generation of complex biological structures. "Such principles are fully consistent with the principles of natural selection. Biological change is always driven by random mutation and selection, but at certain pivotal junctures in evolutionary history, such random processes can create structures capable of steering subsequent evolution toward greater sophistication and complexity."