RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
January 31, 2015 at 5:35 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2015 at 5:36 pm by Angrboda.)
(January 31, 2015 at 7:05 am)Heywood Wrote: Niether you nor anyone else have never presented an observation of an evolutionary systems which contains the elements: Replication, Heritiable traits, Change, and Selection which was also observed coming into existence without the need of an intellect.(emphasis added)
The text in green speaks to an analogy with biological evolution. The text in blue speaks to an analogy with abiogenesis. Which does your conclusion speak to, abiogenesis or evolution, or both? Because if it is drawing upon an analogy to evolution, we already know that evolution doesn't require the intervention of an intellect. If your conclusion is about abiogenesis, then your analogy is flawed in multiple ways. First, we don't know that the parallels between the genesis of Heywood systems resemble those of the genesis of biological evolutionary systems. Second, you don't know what the essential elements of abiogenesis are, so you can't draw an analogy to an unknown; perhaps replication, heritability, change and selection encapsulate the necessary ingredients of that process, perhaps not. You don't know what the genesis of biological life looked like, so it's impossible to say if your analogous Heywood systems are even relevant.
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