RE: Detecting design or intent in nature
February 6, 2015 at 2:45 pm
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2015 at 2:47 pm by Heywood.)
(February 6, 2015 at 2:31 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(February 6, 2015 at 2:24 pm)Heywood Wrote: The extra features you claim biological evolution has does not exclude it from the set of things I am talking about.
Your set does not go far enough to include all the things that define biological evolution.
A motorcycle can be defined as the following: a two-wheeled vehicle that is powered by a motor and has no pedals.
According to that set of things that define a motorcycle, a Segway would be included. Is a Segway a motorcycle?
There exist a set...two-wheeled vehicles that are powered by a motor and have no pedals.
A motorcycle is not a Segway, but both are members of the set, two-wheeled vehicles that are powered by a motor and have no pedals.
Now if I make a point about the set, say....every element contains two wheels made of rubber, you don't refute the point about the set by claiming a motorcycle is not a Segway. You refute the point by providing an example of a two wheeled vehicle powered by a motor that does not have wheels made of rubber.