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inkorrekt
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Message 1 of 302 (283993)
02-04-2006 6:54 PM


For those who believe in random chance:
If I put all the pieces of a small puzzle (may be 50) and shake them up even after million times, chances of them self assembling themselves is impossible. Now, one more to think about.
We all use computers for this forum. Well, if I look at the computer, it is very complex. It is too hard for me to understand how the microprocessor is coupled to various other electronic components and when it is powered on, there it goes. The first computer did nto self assemble. There was a man by the name Steve Jobs who is more intelligent than me and he knew all about the electronic components. He put them all together and laid them in the proper places and fed the electric power. This became the original DESIGN of the first Apple computer. Later on this one evolved into imac's and g-macs. So, in this situation, it was Steve Jobs who was the Intelligent Designer. As a biologist, it is very hard for me to imagine that a simple unicellular organism which is lot more complex than acomputer came into existence by self assembly without a designer. He could be an alien from Mars even.

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Message 2 of 302 (284020)
02-04-2006 8:20 PM


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Message 3 of 302 (284023)
02-04-2006 8:28 PM
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02-04-2006 6:54 PM


inkorreckt
If I put all the pieces of a small puzzle (may be 50) and shake them up even after million times, chances of them self assembling themselves is impossible.
No the chance of them self assemblying is unlikely in the extreme but not impossible.
As a biologist, it is very hard for me to imagine that a simple unicellular organism which is lot more complex than acomputer came into existence by self assembly without a designer.
It is less improbable than the likelyhood of a designer self assembling is it not?

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Message 4 of 302 (284030)
02-04-2006 8:36 PM
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02-04-2006 6:54 PM


As a biologist, it is very hard for me to imagine that a simple unicellular organism which is lot more complex than acomputer came into existence by self assembly without a designer.
It may be hard for you to imagine, but evolving circuits via random "chance" (as you referred to it) and selection is an increasingly vibrant area of electronic engineering:
quote:
`Intrinsic' Hardware Evolution is the use of artificial evolution -- such as a Genetic Algorithm -- to design an electronic circuit automatically, where each fitness evaluation is the measurement of a circuit's performance when physically instantiated in a real reconfigurable VLSI chip. This paper makes a detailed case-study of the first such application of evolution directly to the configuration of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Evolution is allowed to explore beyond the scope of conventional design methods, resulting in a highly efficient circuit with a richer structure and dynamics and a greater respect for the natural properties of the implementation medium than is usual. The application is a simple, but not toy, problem: a tone-discrimination task. Practical details are considered throughout.
from a paper on the subject. (Sorry, URL too long to post.)
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Message 5 of 302 (284031)
02-04-2006 8:38 PM
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02-04-2006 6:54 PM


Bad analogy
Unfortunately the analogies you provide are a little off.
First, jigsaw puzzle pieces don't combine as easily as amino acids. They aren't subject to reacting in different ways under different temperatures, dehydration, etc.
I'd like to see a jigsaw puzzle that assembles itself in some order in high temperature in water, then forms structures which can then 'eat' and reproduce new puzzles, and so on. Computer components are the same.
One thing about a completed jigsaw puzzle and a computer: We know how they were put together. We know the mechanics of the building. This is where ID and evolution differ. ToE can explain the design process, the work that goes into it, the forces that drive it etc.

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Message 6 of 302 (284034)
02-04-2006 8:52 PM
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02-04-2006 6:54 PM


Imperfect replicators
Perhaps I can offer a bit of insite here
1: the puzzle
Others have noted some of the trouble with you analogy. In addition, puzzles have one right way to be assembled. The components of life have multiple ways. One can not make statements about how unlikely they are until one knows all the "acceptable" outcomes.
In addtion, why did you pick 50 pieces? If the minimal imperfect replicator that size; bigger; smaller?
2: The computer
Computers do not f**k. Any analogy for life processes that does not involves imperfect reproduction with selection is NOT an analogy for evolutionary processes at all. Therefore this is useless as a point of discussion.

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Message 7 of 302 (284046)
02-04-2006 9:29 PM
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02-04-2006 6:54 PM


steve jobs -- not THAT intelligent
There was a man by the name Steve Jobs who is more intelligent than me and he knew all about the electronic components. He put them all together and laid them in the proper places and fed the electric power. This became the original DESIGN of the first Apple computer. Later on this one evolved into imac's and g-macs. So, in this situation, it was Steve Jobs who was the Intelligent Designer.
i have a computer in the second line of job's designs. coincidentally, jobs did not design the first apple -- his friends did. they also didn't design much of the first graphical computer: they "co-opted" it from xerox. anyways. the first of job's designs, "lisa," is a well known failure. didn't even make it to market, because the components were to expensive.
but on to the one i have. i happen to own an original macintosh plus. it was about the second or third kind of mac made, basically no different from the first except that it had more memory. all macs of this generation have a fatal flaw. they are all convection cooled -- there is no fan present in the macintosh. the flaw is that vents are not big enough. this causes the computer to overheat, spark, melt circuitry, and maybe even catch fire if you leave it on long enough. the video card goes first. there is no solution to this problem.
so, yes, brilliant design. the used the same design on the recent mac cube, which i hear you can make toast with.
For those who believe in random chance:
If I put all the pieces of a small puzzle (may be 50) and shake them up even after million times, chances of them self assembling themselves is impossible. Now, one more to think about.
but the problem is that this is not a good analogy for evolution. we are not trying to reproduce a design that already exist, or fit bits of things together from a complete starting point that has been jig-sawed apart. and it is not random.
now, if you had a computer algorithm that started with one piece of the puzzle, and tried a few different pieces at random to attach to it rejecting all the ones that didn't fit and keeping the ones that did -- see how fast your puzzle gets put together.
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inkorrekt
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Message 8 of 302 (285361)
02-09-2006 10:39 PM
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02-04-2006 9:29 PM


Re: steve jobs -- not THAT intelligent
now, if you had a computer algorithm that started with one piece of the puzzle, and tried a few different pieces at random to attach to it rejecting all the ones that didn't fit and keeping the ones that did -- see how fast your puzzle gets put together""
Does it mean that the Super computer is the intelligent Designer?
Well, we can say anything about the failure of the first computer or who ever did it. In the context, this is not important. The issue here is who INVENTED the first computer? Did it require Intelligence?

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Message 9 of 302 (286006)
02-12-2006 5:42 PM
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02-04-2006 8:36 PM


Thanks for proving my point.
What about "artificial intrinsic evolution" of electronic circuits? Did it not require a Designer? Did it come from space?
Artificail intrinsic evolution will create Electroninc circuits ONLY after it is designed, tested and properly made to function. It cannot come into existence without a DESIGNER. Thanks for proving my point.

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Message 10 of 302 (286007)
02-12-2006 5:44 PM
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Thanks for proving my point.
What about "artificial intrinsic evolution" of electronic circuits? Did it not require a Designer? Did it come from space?
Artificail intrinsic evolution will create Electroninc circuits ONLY after it is designed, tested and properly made to function. It cannot come into existence without a DESIGNER. Thanks for proving my point.

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Message 11 of 302 (286010)
02-12-2006 5:52 PM
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02-12-2006 5:42 PM


Re: Thanks for proving my point.
What about "artificial intrinsic evolution" of electronic circuits? Did it not require a Designer?
No, it didn't. It required a human being to copy what they observed occuring in nature. Humans didn't invent natural selection and random mutation. They observed these processes already occuring and merely imitated them.
Artificail intrinsic evolution will create Electroninc circuits ONLY after it is designed, tested and properly made to function. It cannot come into existence without a DESIGNER.
Now you're just moving the goalposts. Don't you remember your OP? The question wasn't whether or not mutation and evolution needed a designer, but whether or not they were capable of design. It would be far better for you to defend your original points than to try to shift the goalposts to another topic.

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Message 12 of 302 (287419)
02-16-2006 6:05 PM


We percieved randomness as something without structure. And though percieved randomness has brought about quite a diverse universe full of complicated structures of inumerable and intricately balanced systems...who is to say weather or not there is intent behind it. A view for or against inteligent design is a simple testament as to wheather or not one believes in a higher power. That is religeon.
I am for intligent design in that it agrees with my beliefs.
I am agaist the promoters of inteligent design who want to teach it as science. I am still confused as to how intligent people can deny the overwhelming evidence of evolutinary theory. Science is a wonderful tool that is at it's best when helping to make sense of the physical world. Religeon is a wonderful tool that is at it's best when helping to make sense of the spiritual self and our relation to others. it encompasses feelings and motivations.....often given insight to a percieved meaning to life.
Science will never acheive this by it's very nature.
In the same light religeon is a very poor tool to use in understanding the laws of nature. Fact and belief are far too often from different worlds.

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Hi 2ice_baked_taters,
Since your new here you might drop in to the [forum=-14] and start a topic about yourself, let us know a little about what your interests and beliefs are.
TTFN,
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Message 14 of 302 (287465)
02-16-2006 8:23 PM
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Re: Thanks for proving my point.
your point is useless, you are using a faulty analogy, conputer circuits can never reproduce, and we know they are designed there is evidence that they are designed, it says "Intel" on my motherboard. using comparisions to human designed things is faulty because human intelligence has yet to design life the way life is currently - everything about ID is out to deny evolution from the get-go

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Message 15 of 302 (287496)
02-17-2006 12:55 AM
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Not thinking about it deeply enough
Hey Ink, welcome to the boards.
I've read your openning post and have a few comments.
The puzzle analogy is essentially the Monkeys typing Hamlet analogy phrased differently.
The problem with all of these ideas is that they are theoretical experiments - but for all these experiments, we have to measure the success. By injecting an observer who judges the outcome, you automatically come out with Intelligence being involved in the experiment.
Your computer analogy is also one I've heard before - but here's something that people never point out.
If computers are very precise and the software is constructed of 1s and 0s, and they will only work if those numbers are in the right order and put there by an intelligent being - then what are bugs?
Why is it that a computer which is running fine will suddenly do something weird? (ie my MS Word no longer thinks that cookie is spelled correctly). Something has knocked one of the 1s into a 0 - that something (be it radiation, a magnetic field, etc) is not the result of intelligence. Yet, this change results in different behavior by the computer.
If I decide that this change is benificial and give the new software to friends, then essentially that program has evolved and spread it's code/DNA to new locations

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