(January 18, 2015 at 1:55 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 18, 2015 at 1:47 pm)Chas Wrote: If you say that it might require intellect, fine. But you keep insisting that it does require it and you have not demonstrated that
My claim is that evolution does not need it - "je n'ai pas eu besoin de cette hypothèse". Once there are replicating organisms, then evolution will occur.
If you are specifically talking about abiogeneis, then just say so and quit conflating it with evolution.
I'm not insisting that it does. I am claiming there is reason to believe that it does because when you observe the implementation of evolutionary systems...in every observation you can find the involvement of an intellect. What good reason exists to claim that it doesn't?
What the actual fuck do you mean "implementation of evolutionary systems"? There is no system; variation and selection are mindless.
The only place for inserting intellect would be abiogenesis.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
Science is not a subject, but a method.