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Author Topic:   is there any case for Intelligent design in man made products
Portillo
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Message 61 of 72 (664544)
06-01-2012 7:58 PM
Reply to: Message 59 by Dr Adequate
05-28-2012 7:28 AM


Quite so. Welcome to evolution. Quite so. Welcome to evolution. Wipe your feet on the mat, they've got apologetics on them.
And what evidence is that. DDT resistance?
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Message 62 of 72 (664561)
06-01-2012 10:15 PM
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06-01-2012 7:58 PM


And what evidence is that. DDT resistance?
What a strange non sequitur.

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Message 63 of 72 (664563)
06-01-2012 10:34 PM
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06-01-2012 10:15 PM


I mean whats the evidence of evolution that we see in the present.
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Message 64 of 72 (664565)
06-01-2012 10:46 PM
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06-01-2012 10:34 PM


I mean whats the evidence of evolution that we see in the present.
Do you mean evidence of evolution occurring in the present, or evidence that it has occurred in the past that we see in the present?
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May I take it that you concede my actual point, the one that I made?

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Message 65 of 72 (664566)
06-01-2012 11:09 PM
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06-01-2012 10:46 PM


Occuring in the present. Im not sure what point your referring to.

Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. - Ezekial 22:14

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Message 66 of 72 (664568)
06-01-2012 11:40 PM
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06-01-2012 11:09 PM


Occuring in the present.
In the present we observe small amounts of evolution commensurate with the small amount of time we've been looking. DDT resistance would be one example, yes.
Im not sure what point your referring to.
The one I made.
You claimed in general that coded information is the product of intelligence. But this is untrue in the particular case to which you wish to apply it, namely living organisms. We know that the genetic code in (for example) a daffodil was caused by two daffodils unintelligently having sex, and that unintelligent (and, of course, non-supernatural) processes of DNA copying and recombination and mutation and so forth were all that were required to produce the code. That's what we see.
So the specific case in which you wish to apply your supposedly general rule is a known counter-example to it! It's as though you were to say: "All machines work by electricity. Therefore, steam engines work by electricity", or: "All birds can fly. Therefore, ostriches can fly."

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Message 67 of 72 (665318)
06-11-2012 9:39 PM
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06-01-2012 11:40 PM


You claimed in general that coded information is the product of intelligence. But this is untrue in the particular case to which you wish to apply it, namely living organisms. We know that the genetic code in (for example) a daffodil was caused by two daffodils unintelligently having sex, and that unintelligent (and, of course, non-supernatural) processes of DNA copying and recombination and mutation and so forth were all that were required to produce the code. That's what we see.
Living organisms can reproduce and pass on genetic code, but natural selection doesnt explain the origin of code. The problem is what you need to get natural selection in the first place. Natural selection presupposes a self-replicating organism that can reproduce and create offspring. The organism is conducted by information in the DNA, which is what you are trying to explain the origin of. Biochemist Christian de Duve says, "Theories of prebiotic natural selection need information, which implies that they have to presuppose what is to be explained in the first place." Its like the guy who falls in a pit and says no problem, Ill go home and get a ladder. So he runs home, gets a ladder, comes back to the pit and climbs out.
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Message 68 of 72 (665319)
06-11-2012 9:48 PM
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06-11-2012 9:39 PM


Not quite.
Natural selection is simply the environment.
It really is that simple.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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Dr Adequate
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Message 69 of 72 (665322)
06-11-2012 11:22 PM
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06-11-2012 9:39 PM


Living organisms can reproduce and pass on genetic code, but natural selection doesnt explain the origin of code.
Which is why I didn't say it could, nor mentioned natural selection in my post.
My actual point, the one I made, remains what I actually said it was. When we look at living organisms, we find coded information without an intelligent cause. This means that you can't claim that coded information always has an intelligent cause, because this is known to be untrue. And if you wish to imagine that there was once an organism the information in which did have an intelligent cause, then the onus of proof is on you.

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Message 70 of 72 (665326)
06-11-2012 11:54 PM
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06-11-2012 11:22 PM


How do you determine that a living organism is unintelligent?
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Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it. - Ezekial 22:14

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Message 71 of 72 (665327)
06-12-2012 12:49 AM
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06-11-2012 11:54 PM


How do you determine that a living organism is unintelligent?
Well, I gave the example of daffodils. They seem quite unintelligent. Could we not agree on that as common ground?
But even in the case of intelligent organisms, let us say Pierre and Marie Curie, the process that produced the information was itself unintelligent. He and she may have used their big Nobel-Prize-winning brains to decide to have a child, or at least to have hot scientist-on-scientist sex, but they did not intelligently design its genome, did they?
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Message 72 of 72 (665328)
06-12-2012 12:56 AM
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05-28-2012 4:38 AM


Henry Quastler
The information scientist Henry Quastler said that, "The creation of new information is habitually associated with conscious activity."
Hmm ... let's look at some other things Quastler said. Here's a precis of his book The Emergence of Biological Organization (Yale University Press, 1964). Note the direct quote at the end.
This penetrating essay develops a scientific theory of biological organization starting with the initial creative accident which marked the origin of life. It is the first step in a theory that the author had intended to extend to other levels of organization. Henry Quastler was a research biologist whose application of mathematical ideas to biology was among his greatest contributions, and it was in the course of this work that he became involved in relating the concepts of information theory to problems of cell structure and of the creation and transmission of information in living systems. Here he postulates the construction of an automaton which could produce something akin to the noblest act of human consciousness, the creation of new information. He finds this eventuality not frightening but reassuring. It establishes the possibility of the creation of new information by an organism much simpler than man, even by a single cell, and even by a prebiological macromolecular system.
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