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Author Topic:   Where are all the missing links?
ringo
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Message 275 of 302 (242470)
09-12-2005 11:01 AM
Reply to: Message 274 by iano
09-12-2005 8:40 AM


iano writes:
Modify the wheel by all means but why reinvent it.
I write little computer programs for fun. I am constantly, constantly, constantly 're-inventing the wheel'.
Why? For fun. That's the only reason I do it in the first place.
It's fun to see how many ways I can figure out to do something. Kludging one 'design' to do a lot of different things is not fun.
The same principle applies to all forms of 'creation'. I also do wood carving and acrylic painting. I don't modify the same old design over and over again. I look for whole new ways to do things.
You're really forcing your 'Designer' into a boring little box.

People who think they have all the answers usually don't understand the questions.

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ringo
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Message 293 of 302 (242930)
09-13-2005 11:25 AM
Reply to: Message 287 by iano
09-13-2005 6:10 AM


iano writes:
Finding ways to achieve a goal within constraints is the challenge....
Just bizarre. Since when is the 'designer' of the universe subject to constraints? That's what I mean about you shoving Her into a little box.
To relate this to the subject of missing links: why would there be any links if every organism was specially designed?
Why design archaeopteryx with feathers and teeth? Dinosaurs without feathers were pretty successful and birds without teeth are still pretty successful. If Archie was just an experiment, where are the other experiments? Where is the fish-whale experiment?
It seems to me that a 'designer' - as you describe Her - would have left a lot of more-or-less successful experiments behind. So, where are all the missing experiments?

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ringo
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Message 296 of 302 (242942)
09-13-2005 11:51 AM
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09-13-2005 11:36 AM


Re: committees of designers
Chiroptera writes:
Then the Cetacean Subsubsubcommittee, impressed with the work of the Teleost Subsubcommittee, decided to make its own version of a "fish"....
So, where is the fish-whale experiment? Fossil evidence please?

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