Pinch-hitting for absent IDers.
So, how does "Intelligent Design" explain all the bad design carried by viruses and other {vector\delivery} systems?
1) It is not imperative that the designers use mechanisms we think are the best to employ, perhaps there are better ways we do not know of as yet.
2) It is possible that we have simply not seen the virii used by the designers, and it just so happens that many (and indeed most) free range virii are capable of doing all sorts of bad things, including mutation to harmful entities we need protection from.
3) It is possible that the "bad" virii are in fact serving a purpose of the designers, even if from our point of view they are doing it inefficiently.
Now let me take a shot back (turnabout being fairplay)...
Here are some people that altered a virus to intentionally have a novel function. Lets say that this had not been revealed to the public, perhaps a secret defense project. Then lets say the lab was hit by some explosive device destroying all those with knowledge of the project and records regarding what was going on... and at the same time scattering some of the virii.
If someone was to come upon these virii, and see this behavior, should they conclude that this was a result of normal mutation to a virus or the result of design? What characteristics would they use to make such a determination?
To those not in the know, I am not an ID theorist, I just play one from time to time on EvC.
holmes
"Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." (Lovecraft)
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