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NosyNed
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Message 21 of 123 (529827)
10-10-2009 6:20 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Pauline
10-09-2009 7:56 PM


Why not....
One of my many reasons for not considering this mechanism to be programmed by someone is implied in this thread:
Message 1 Distinguishing Designs
Others have given similar reasons as:
We have a well understood mechanisms for producing the appearance of design in biological (or any imperfectly replicating things) organisms.
When we examine potential designs we see them falling into very, very different and easily distinguishable categories (the point of the above referenced thread). The heart like other biological components falls very clearly into the not designed category.

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Message 28 of 123 (529850)
10-10-2009 7:57 PM
Reply to: Message 23 by Straggler
10-10-2009 7:24 PM


Re: Breeding
Dr. Sing writes:
I'm trying to understand the idea of mutations bringing about a postive effect collectively.
straggler writes:
Think breeding.
That hardly seems like a very helpful "explanation".

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Message 67 of 123 (531156)
10-16-2009 10:40 AM
Reply to: Message 66 by Dr Adequate
10-16-2009 10:19 AM


God and the Solar System
And he didn't try to explain celestial mechanics in terms of God doing magic. Otherwise we wouldn't have heard of the man.
Well, yes he did when he didn't have a stable solution for the solar system he concluded that God held it together. He did stop his research and he was wrong to do so.
This is a very good example of the problem of the Goddidit "solution" because we can see that the man was dammed smart; smart enough to have solved the problem maybe. But he gave up and used the goddidit answer so we can't know now if he was smart enough. Legrange showed himself to be either smarter or not influenced by the easy and unproductive way out.

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