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Author Topic:   Evolution is most likely a part of intelligent design
Jon
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Message 57 of 59 (368365)
12-08-2006 3:24 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by kent75
10-11-2006 1:48 AM


and in the dna carry the blueprints that will direct these organisms to evolve one day into intelligent life,
I don't think DNA ever carried the "blueprints" for intelligence, as evolution has no plan. Intelligence (if that is what we will call it) just happened. Think, lack of blueprints. Imagine building a structure that must hold up in time. You make some crazy wood things that rott away, but then "accidentally" add a roof, which keeps the underlayers from rotting. Then you "accidentally" add shingles, which keeps the roof from rotting. And before you know it, you have a house. You "accidentally" keep building on this structure from here and there, trying this and that. Some things are good, some are not. In the end, you will always have the original structure with the shingles (simple life), but you will probably 've also come up with "accidentally" a mansion or two along the way .
Sorry, bad analogy, but it's the best I could do with the blueprint thing.
The problem, is that if there WERE DNA probes that shot onto Earth to make us (I assume that is what you are ultimately hinting at), then we could not conclude that they were created with us as a blueprint. I mean, if a mansion was the intention, why did we end up with so many shacks along the way?
J0N

In considering the Origin of Species, it is quite conceivable that a naturalist... might come to the conclusion that each species had not been independently created, but had descended, like varieties, from other species. - Charles Darwin On the Origin of Species

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