RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 19, 2015 at 4:21 pm
(This post was last modified: January 19, 2015 at 4:34 pm by Chas.)
(January 19, 2015 at 4:08 pm)Heywood Wrote:(January 19, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: How about "Biological evolution is an evolutionary system which has been observed to come into existence without an intellect [or requirement of same]. It is an evolutionary system because it has these elements or their equivalents of evolutionary systems. Those elements are: Replication, Heritable traits, Change, and Selection."
Thanks Stimbo, this along the lines of what I am looking for. The problem with biological evolution is we did not observe its implementation....its coming into existence. So putting "biological evolution" into the blank creates a false statement.
Can you put another evolutionary system into that blank that we have observed coming into existence?
There is no system. Evolution is a blind, mechanical process. It is the inevitable result of imperfect replication.
Just like it takes no intellect for a galaxy to start rotating when sufficient infalling mass creates it.
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