[QUOTE]Originally posted by mopsveldmuis:
[B]Humans chose the transistors, the number of transistors and what the output should look like. That is all part of what you call design specifications.
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Yes - I agree. That is the point of this question. All their design intention was to get an oscillator. They got something they didn't expect, so how can you say that it was designed?
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What pressured dead mud to come to life? The "prebiotic soup" where life is supposed to have originated had an unlimited number of particles that could have binded in any way possible to them. To expect life to start like that is to think that a computer program connecting any number of random components in a random way will make a working and useful and complicated electronic device somewhere along the line, like a computer or a cellular phone.
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You do not appear to be talking about ID here, but about Abiogenesis, which is quite a different topic. I am not addressing abiogenesis here. If you want to talk about abiogenesis, there is a separate forum for this - see the list of forums above. It is important to understand that evolution does NOT address issues of how a self-replicating process starts, but rather what self-replicating systems do under various pressures. Obviously evolutionists believe that self-replicating systems can and do arise, but how this happens is a different issue.
If you are thinking of using the argument from incredible complexity, you might want to look at this site before posting:
Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and Probability of
Abiogenesis Calculations