RE: Show me your proof
April 18, 2013 at 10:31 am
(This post was last modified: April 18, 2013 at 10:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I always found that bit to be the most amusing. If were an example of a design that would say something pretty horrible about any designer. As an example of a emergent system we're remarkably well made, if, of course, you don't consider all the shit that wasn't (and is now long dead).
Get a bunch of self replicating whatevers, and the vast majority of them just won't do work. A few of them will -again by brute force of numbers, and continue that process for a very, very long time. You'd expect redundancy, inherited flaws, "just good enough engineering" and of course, a massive trash pile of failed "design". Conveniently, that's precisely what we find. To me, that's much bigger, much more impressive, and much more awe-inspiring than any "abbracadabra" moment, nevermind that this is how we see it happening - even if it weren't...I'd feel cheated by magic.
Get a bunch of self replicating whatevers, and the vast majority of them just won't do work. A few of them will -again by brute force of numbers, and continue that process for a very, very long time. You'd expect redundancy, inherited flaws, "just good enough engineering" and of course, a massive trash pile of failed "design". Conveniently, that's precisely what we find. To me, that's much bigger, much more impressive, and much more awe-inspiring than any "abbracadabra" moment, nevermind that this is how we see it happening - even if it weren't...I'd feel cheated by magic.
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