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Author Topic:   Software Maintenance, Intelligent Design, and Evolution
DanskerMan
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Message 6 of 12 (34599)
03-18-2003 12:28 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by lpetrich
03-05-2003 1:30 AM


As to sonnikke's pique over computer programmers and engineers not accepting his theology, despite their being creators and designers, it could be that the sort of "design" that they tend to see is not some single great from-scratch design, but instead the sort of design that human designers are known to do -- piece-by-piece, with kludges and workarounds tending to accumulate over time.
It doesn't matter how you look at it, computer programs, buildings, cars, they are *all* designed by *intelligence*, not random, un-intelligent "forces", that simply is impossible. The more complex a design gets, the more involved it gets, and the more obvious it becomes that intelligence is involved. Your analogy doesn't work because if you take out your designer(s), *nothing* would get created.
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Blaise Pascal

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DanskerMan
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Message 8 of 12 (34654)
03-19-2003 12:44 AM
Reply to: Message 7 by PaulK
03-18-2003 2:35 AM


The point of this thread is that you are quite wrong. Evolution has got a lot in common with the tinkering that produces unnecessary complexity while creationism postulates a design-from-scratch scenario that should keep complexity down. The more complex life is the more likely it evolved, rather than being designed.
I obviously totally disagree with you. And you can't escape the human designer(s), so how would you create a computer program if you could *only* sit in front of the computer and stare at it without touching a single key? You obviously couldn't, your *intelligent* intervention is req'd, and the more complex it gets, the more intelligence is req'd, it's simply an unescapable fact!
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Blaise Pascal

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