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Author Topic:   Why Reuse Design?
Dr Adequate
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Message 31 of 60 (582260)
09-20-2010 3:18 PM
Reply to: Message 4 by Buzsaw
09-18-2010 8:20 AM


I think it's partly because since the Industrial Revolution education has mostly been communal rather than individual and in-family and small schools. The larger our public schools get, the dumber the graduates are and the more they think alike. Communial education tends to program minds into assembly line thinking in fields like science, building, manufacture design and so forth.
And you're advancing this supposed trend of getting "dumber" as a reason why people re-use design?
Then apparently the "dumber" they get, the more they resemble your all-wise creator.
Surely some mistake here?

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Dr Adequate
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Message 42 of 60 (582448)
09-21-2010 12:42 PM
Reply to: Message 41 by Taq
09-21-2010 11:20 AM


Which gets me to the point I was trying to make. When ID supporters state that "reusing design makes sense" they are taking a anthropic view, not a God-like view.
Well, not even that.
If someone asked me to design a butterfly, I wouldn't start with the design for some kind of lobster and then tinker with it.
I wouldn't do that. An Intelligent Designer wouldn't do that. There's only one thing I know of that would do such a damnfool thing, and that's evolution.

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