Detecting design or intent in nature

[Heywood]

[quote='Jenny A' pid='837870' dateline='1420607755']
I could program a gravity and planetary motion simulator (actually I'm sure there are some simulators already). Then we'd have gravity simulators and the only ones which are not the universe would all be designed by intellect. Would that prove gravity and inertia is a designed system? Can you not see the problem with that?

Gravity is not a system. It is a force of nature believed to be carried by the graviton.

Evolution is more akin to a force than a system.

It is merely whatever helps one animal breed and another not.
Longer legs, bigger lungs, not standing by the tiger, you get the idea.

You don't have to invoke anything extra, but by the lord Harry I'm sure you'll try, because you believe so hard and want others to join in so your view wont seem quite so silly.

In physics a force is something that causes a change in an object's motion. Evolution is not a force. Evolution is a system because it contains different elements which together make a more complex whole. Elements of evolution are replication, heritability, change or mutation, and selection.

To Jenny A,

The game "Chinese Whispers" is an evolutionary system because it has all the elements of an evolutionary system. Information is passed on from one person to the next. This is replication and heritability. Small changes or mutations occur in the message. Which are either selected to be passed on or not.

"Chinese Whispers" would not exist unless intellect exists. Intellect is required to either design the system or to be a selection component in the system.