(February 4, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(February 4, 2014 at 9:07 pm)Stimbo Wrote: The fallacy here, of course, is the false equivocation between what an individual is capable of compared to successive generations. Evolution works on the generational level.
I was refuting Deist’s claim that if something small happens something great can therefore also happen. There are limitations to how many generations you can have though.
Actually, just to be clear, the comment to which I was responding was itself in response to DP's reply to your question "If you can walk a mile can you walk a billion miles?" He wasn't making the claim you just asserted.
I was pointing out that there is a difference between an individual walking a mile and generations of that individual completeing a journey of a billion miles.
(February 4, 2014 at 9:17 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:Quote: But to engage your original analogy of walking a billion miles, that's the whole principle between generation starships; that the vessel is launched and the descendants of the original crew and passengers eventually disembark at their destination.
I am not following you here.
Perhaps try again with my above clarification in mind.
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