(November 5, 2014 at 3:24 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: This is specified complexity...and the only way you would get that kind of complexity, that kind of specification, that kind of precision is from an intelligent designer...an intelligent orchestrator...to engineer the process.
That was a reasonable position to take before we (largely) understood how evolution works. It's a dumb algorithm that gives the appearance of intelligent design by filtering out all the really bad models and only leaving the the ones that are at least minimally adequate for surviving to reproduce. It's creative in the sense that novelty can arise from it, but calling something that involves trying everything and letting the environment kill all the unfit variations doesn't resemble the kind of intentional design that humans do much.
We're now using similar algorithms to devise new proteins for medical use, because at computer speeds it can be faster to randomly vary things and filter out what's less useful as a way to simulate creativity.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.