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Author Topic:   The Blind Watchmaker?
bluescat48
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01-26-2008 2:18 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by dogrelata
01-26-2008 12:43 PM


dogrelata
I suggest that Paley’s analogy points not to intelligent design, as he intended, but unwittingly to the process of evolution via natural selection. That is, apply mutant ”left field’ ideas to the evolved, accumulated knowledge base, see which work and which don’t, update the knowledge base and move on.
Interesting point. I agree that stone age men would have had the same capabilities as current humans if they had access to modern evolved knowledge, and the analogy of the watch does seem to point more toward
natural selection rather than ID.
Edited by bluescat48, : punctuation

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