RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
February 6, 2015 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 12:33 pm by Heywood.)
(February 6, 2015 at 9:43 am)Chas Wrote: However, if you are now talking about evolution in a broader, less technical sense such as the evolution of computers, or the evolution of thought in the political world, or memes, then this has nothing much to do with biological evolution.
I am talking about every evolutionary system which contains the following elements: replication, heritable traits, change, and selection. Those elements define the set of things I am talking about. Biological evolution just happens to belong in that set because it is a system which contains those elements.
What you are doing is making a special pleading. You are saying that even though Biological evolution contains those elements it really doesn't belong to the set of things I am talking about.....that somehow it is a special case. You are making this special pleading without any justification.
(February 6, 2015 at 9:59 am)robvalue Wrote: Instead of two goalposts I think only one has been set up. You have to kick it somewhere past the post. Or near it. I don't know where the goal line is either. And there's no ball!
I have set up only one goal post. Replication, Heritable traits, Change, and Selection. In 96 pages this goal post has not moved. Your task is a simple one. Present an observation of a system which contains those elements, which was observed coming into existence sans intellect.
