(May 15, 2018 at 7:09 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(May 15, 2018 at 6:53 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Intuition is wrong.
A software engineer has no background in chemistry to understand the scope of possible organic chemistry over hundreds of millions of years. He has no background in earth science to understand the conditions under which these organic chemistry operates. He has no conception of the order of magnitude of individual trials possible at molecular level on a stage the size of the earth.
A programmer who has some real exposure to actual science would understand how narrow the confines of a few artificially created languages and artificially created machines really are and how little that equips him to opine what is possible in the real world outside of his keyboard, and shut up.
He knows a code always comes from a programmer. It's that simple. This code just happens to be the most sophisticated in the universe. It is clearly designed.
No, he does not know. He assumes his limited experience is generally applicable to fields far outside his experience and education and conflates assumptions with knowledge.
