RE: Intelligent Design: Did you design yourself?
May 30, 2014 at 5:53 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2014 at 5:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 30, 2014 at 5:39 pm)Heywood Wrote: Mycoplasma Labratorium is different. It was claimed to be the first instance of synthetic life. I don't agree with that claim, but the achievement and others has convinced me that intellects are capable of creating independent lineages of life. Its just a matter of time before more than one lineage of life exists on this planet. Most if not all those lineages will be the product of intelligent design.It is synthetic, insofar as they apply the term...but they took all the materials from existing "lineages" of life. Whether or not your prophesy comes true in the future has what effect on the past? I wouldn't dispute that intellect can induce speciation...I wouldn't be surprised if intellect was capable of creating life "from the ground up". I'm not going to hold my breath, of course.
I'm surprised that you needed convincing that intellect can induce speciation. Any sufficient cause can. Those sufficient causes are, well....just about everything. Whether it's "intellect", chance, or NS - they all achieve the effect with the same tools, in the same fundamental manner. IOW, it's the tools that count, not whethger or not the initiating factor has intellect, is random, or is directed (in any other way).
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