RE: For Creationists.
November 17, 2014 at 10:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 17, 2014 at 10:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 17, 2014 at 8:59 am)professor Wrote: Cheech, the mechanism limiting micro from becoming macro is the genetic code....there's no difference. Micro doesn't "become macro" it already is. You have a conceptual misunderstanding that's led you to state that something -we have directly observed many times- does not happen.
Quote:Just like your computer.-snipped to save you face.
The pre-existing code allows different programs (genetic variations) to run. It doesn't allow Mac programs to run on Bill Gates' stuff,
The difference that -used to exist- between a PC and a Mac had nothing to do with code. It was hardware architecture-
A PC was originally a system that was IBM PC architecture compatible. IBM PC-DOS, or Microsoft MS-DOS would run on these systems. It later came to mean Windows PCs with an Intel x86 chip. There was (and had never been) anything "windows only" about a PC. Now, Mac didn't use an Intel chip, they used a Power PC chip and relied on a different architecture. So you couldn't just load up Windows on a Mac. Since 2006, however, Mac has transitioned to the Intel chipset and a whole host of other hardware providers that are precisely the same as you would find in a PC, in addition to similar (sometimes identical) drivers....making them "wintel pc compatible". That's why you can run Windows on a Mac now. Or Mac OS X on a PC. You can even take a Mac and a PC and cannibalize the boards to create a third system that you might then run Linux on.
Not all PCs are Macs, but all Macs are PCs. "Bill Gates' stuff" runs better on a Mac than it does on a PC, in my experience....and it's cheaper to run "Steve Jobs' shit" on a PC than it is on a Mac.
For all these reasons (and many more) the analogy was a poor choice on your part.
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