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Author Topic:   Design without a designer?
MrHambre
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Message 6 of 14 (58976)
10-01-2003 1:39 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by IrishRockhound
09-30-2003 9:55 AM


Even Conway's Game of Life is a simple example of three dumb rules generating 'design'. The floaters and other strange characters that appear are not the planned outcome of intelligent design, only the algorithm working itself out over and over.
Daniel Dennett has pointed out that Darwin's genius lay in his discovery of certain sets of biological algorithms. The repetition of these processes create the phenomena we see today. If someone doesn't accept that apparent design can be created by non-goal-oriented processes, they're denying what they can see with their own eyes. Not that anyone here would do that.
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