RE: Richard Dawkin's big blunder
March 17, 2014 at 5:37 pm
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2014 at 5:40 pm by Heywood.)
(March 16, 2014 at 11:35 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: The only requirements you need for a "fitness paradigm" to emerge are self-replicators that are at the mercy of limited resources. Not exactly the type of design you'd expect from an intelligent engineer.
What is the difference between being selected because of an ability to gather and utilize scarce resources or being selected on an ability to jump high, swim fast, follow a red dot, or beat the mega-man game? They all pretty much look like they are in the same category to me.
Now I know intelligent engineers have contrived the selection criteria of being able to jump high, swim fast, follow a red dot, or beat the mega-man game.....but you would have me believe this one special selection criterion can't be contrived? Rubbish.
Now I know for a fact that evolutionary systems can come into existence when the selection criterion is contrived. This is easily demonstrable. What I am asking you to do is demonstrate that evolutionary systems can come into existence when the selection criterion isn't contrived. Everytime I ask that from this forum....the result is a sound of crickets chirping.
(March 17, 2014 at 5:22 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: Dawkins is right and you are wrong.
You have been told why many, many times.
This insistence on clinging to an idea that has been disproved is just so very...Christian.
The problem I have is that being told I am wrong is not a convincing argument.
Do you believe it when YECs tell you that you are wrong? I hope not.
