RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
February 6, 2015 at 12:53 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 12:55 pm by IATIA.)
(February 6, 2015 at 12:17 pm)Heywood Wrote: 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."Biological evolution" is the only one in that set then. That is the only system that replicates. A car is replicated, but it does not replicate. A bird nest is replicated, but it does not replicate. There is a big difference between acting on an object and the actions of the object.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
