(December 26, 2015 at 2:18 pm)pool Wrote:(December 26, 2015 at 2:09 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: No it is not.
A stone axe made by a human or hominid is designed, a stone shaped by nature that resembles a stone axe in every way is not. To have design you first need intent and a plan which random events do not have. Even if the random event has a sophisticated outcome and by pure chance conjours up a fully functioning spaceship with lace trimmed steering wheel it would not be designed, just very, very unlikely.
I like that. You're good.
But I disagree that a design needs a plan. I agree about intent - the intent being "to impose certain critirea's, rules, constrainsts etc".
I can design a game without planning how I'm going to approach the design process. I'm sure because I actually did that. lol
No, evolution does not have even an intent. It is a process, and our observations of it allow us to describe in words those processes. Just like a hurricane has no intent, yet we can predict through scientific tools the conditions that lead to them and the paths they may take.
There is no design in evolution or intent. There are words we use to describe the process. But it really has no other goal other than to adapt, some life does and other life goes extinct and all life eventually will die on this planet.
I see no need to add extra language to evolution in an attempt to compete with the religious. Evolution does and that's it. There is no apex to life or ladder life climbs up. There are simply different adaptations that manifest due to conditions of the genes and environment.
