RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 27, 2015 at 3:05 pm
(This post was last modified: January 27, 2015 at 4:03 pm by Heywood.)
(January 27, 2015 at 8:20 am)Chas Wrote:(January 27, 2015 at 7:41 am)Heywood Wrote: What makes biology special in your mind that it can be the only thing in the universe which can evolve? Why can't cars, or sets of variables in a computer evolve?
I have not said that.
However, your whole thesis is about demonstrating that biological evolution requires intellect. If your 'evolution' examples aren't isomorphic to biological evolution, your argument becomes trivial and uninteresting.
The examples and biological evolution are isomorphic because they all satisfy the same definition. The definition is reasonable and it isn't specific to evolutionary systems which required intellect. Your argument that replication has to be self-reproduction is hallow and just an attempt to sneak in a new definition of evolution through the back door. You do this so that you can then claim the examples are not isomorphic with biological evolution. You're straw manning.