(May 19, 2016 at 7:49 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:(May 19, 2016 at 7:09 pm)AAA Wrote: That's just an assertion. Maybe they appear designed the way a person genuinely getting chopped in half appears to be chopped in half. Why do we have to assume biological systems are counter-intuitive?
Because MOST things in science are counter-intuitive. Until Galileo dropped a cannon ball and a bullet from the same height, it was perfectly intuitive that a heavy cannon ball would fall faster than a light bullet. The fact that they fall at the same rate (negating air resistance) is counter-intuitive. That's how science works.
Boru
Most things aren't counter-intuitive, but a lot are. If it is counter-intuitive, it has to be demonstrated to be. Mutation and natural selection has not been shown to be sufficient to account for the complexity of living systems. So why not assume it is not counter intuitive until shown to be? Or why not have people approach it from multiple perspectives so we are more likely to test it thoroughly?