(May 11, 2013 at 12:30 pm)Praetorian Wrote: The question I always want to throw in there when this argument comes up is this: Cars, watches, and stone blocks were all designed with a particular function in mind. If life really shows signs of artifice, what is that function?Oh ye of little faith.... it is all in the book:
Quote:Although often mistaken for a planet, Earth is in reality the greatest supercomputer of all time, designed by the second greatest supercomputer of all time, Deep Thought, to calculate the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe and Everything (to which the answer is 42). It was built by the then-thriving custom planet industry of Magrathea to run a ten-million-year program in which organic life would play a major role. Slartibartfast, a Magrathean designer, was involved in the project and signed his name among the fjords of Norway (an area that won him an award).