RE: Richard Dawkin's big blunder
March 24, 2014 at 8:47 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2014 at 8:48 pm by Mudhammam.)
(March 24, 2014 at 7:23 pm)Heywood Wrote:(March 22, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Perhaps I'm reading too much into your convoluted view of natural selection but you seem to project human consciousness onto all of matter, from the collision of every atom to each organism. That is, because humans can guide evolution through artificial selection or design incredibly complex silicon machinery that mimics biological functionality, this implies that consciousness somehow must have manipulated the entire Universe for last the 13.8 billion years.
Humans or any sufficient intellect, can guide evolution to produce specific forms by designing the fitness paradigm and letting natural selection do its thing.
Here is a video of an intellect using a genetic algorithm to evolve a face. The human intellect isn't actively choosing what random image gets bred from and what image doesn't as in the case of artificial selection.
I don't think anybody would argue that point. Humans are very remarkable in many ways. But it's what you want to say beyond that, that causality implies teleology, that more is needed to explain evolution beyond physical laws acting on physical objects; that is what I find grossly unjustified in light of the data.