RE: Intelligent design: could we do better?
October 13, 2012 at 5:50 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2012 at 5:51 pm by Ryantology.)
(October 12, 2012 at 12:54 am)Akincana Krishna dasa Wrote: Sure, take as long as you need. When you can figure out how to create at least a singled celled organism, maybe you can start to compare your intelligence to the dumb, natural processes of nature. Before then, I think we can at least be humble to the idea that there are - maybe "dumb, natural" - forces much smarter than us in the universe.
One could easily argue that we have already surpassed nature in certain design categories. I'll give one example.
Telescopes are built in the imitation of biological eyes, using lenses and sometimes reflective surfaces to focus light, whereupon it is processed as an image.
Biology has created examples that can see miles away. Humans have created examples which can see almost all the way across the known universe, using a vastly larger chunk of the light spectrum. Or, if one reverses the principles and applies it in the other direction, all the way down to nanoscopic distances.
