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Author Topic:   INTELLIGENT DESIGN: An Engineer’s Approach
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Message 1 of 2 (369709)
12-14-2006 8:35 AM


If I had to cite the standard design engineering process to explain our particular make and model of life, I would use the auto industry as a prime example with which to do so.
Let’s pretend you manage a single car model for a productive automobile manufacturer. And, let’s say you have been asked to make some changes for next year’s line of your model. Would you commission your staff to start from scratch and redraw the plans for every facet of the current line while incorporating the new changes, or would you just reuse the current design plans and incorporate the required revisions to them?
Well, most people would do well to take full advantage of the efficiency, economics, expedience, common sense, reliability, safety, competence, practicality, and overall effectiveness in reusing the existing plans. I might add that it would certainly not be an accident. Your job would depend on your ability to do this. Plans for machinery rely upon intentional activities, and derive most of their utility from older designs.
In fact, the genetic designs we find in living things conform to the same business model. Newer designs appear to have originated as modified copies of earlier plans. Not only does this suggest that we were designed, it makes sense from an engineering perspective. Parenthetically, how it gives anyone the notion that DNA lends credibility to the theory of evolution is still beyond me.
So, I would suggest that we are simply biological machinery”but, not unlike today’s cars. We have systems contained onboard, a CPU, peripheral devices, means for locomotion, coordinated functions, and so on. As a matter of fact, we share a fair degree of robotism with cars. We consume fuel, and we may have even been imbued with a distinct purpose. Yet, this thing we call our mind may be a by-product, a phenomenon unique to this world or these species of ours. It’s good stuff, though.
But, to qualify the purpose itself, we would be asinine not to view it in the context of other animals”mammals, at the very least. So, if we look around at all the mammals on this teal earth, we see that everyone is pretty much doing their own thing. Koalas stare at cameras, whales will jump for food, and people seem to participate in fantasy football. Not much help there.
In qualifying a purpose, what we would need to establish is a common thread . something that we all do, as mammals, in providing a service or performing a particular function. We’d need to determine how we help someone go from situation A to situation B. As near as I can tell, we all emit carbon dioxide, methane, ammonia, sounds, heat, water, and more. I could also be convinced that our specie(s) serve as a primary source of food for some other specie(s). But, that would be as far as I go. As humans, we destroy plants among other things, and have been told there is a god. What does it all mean?
The only conclusion I would draw from this mess is that our designer does not want to reveal its true nature. Yes, I understand that there may be some things that most of us would not want to know, if given the choice. I, for one, have stepped up to the plate. I’m ready for some chin music. And, I cannot shake the feeling that we’re all being used.
I don’t know, maybe all hell would break loose if the truth were discovered. But, that shouldn’t keep us from trying. Let’s be honest, a good god would realize that the need to keep secrets could not possibly outweigh the need to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. We are now at the front doorstep.
And with that, we don’t necessarily require specific knowledge as to the nature of the first cause in this universe, especially if all we need to know is why some wizard of Oz doesn’t have the acorns to come out from behind the curtain. I mean, don’t get me wrong. Life is funtastic, to be sure. Yet, I still believe we deserve a better explanation.
Won’t you help?

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Message 2 of 2 (369719)
12-14-2006 11:11 AM


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