Hi meekerdb
The world is contingent and therefore not perfect.
I don't see the problem.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net
9/3/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him
so that everything could function."
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Time: 2012-09-02, 15:28:15
Subject: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary
On 9/2/2012 9:09 AM, John Clark wrote:
> 6) Evolution has no foresight: This is the most important reason of all.
> A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you a
> prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while
> the engine is running, you must do it in one million small steps, and you
> must do it so every one of those small steps immediately improves
> the operation
> of the engine. Eventually you would get an improved engine of some
> sort, but it
> wouldn't look anything like a jet.
Good exposition. But it's not the case every small step must be an improvement.
It's
sufficient that it not be a degradation.
Brent
"What designer would put a recreational area between two waste disposal sites?"
--- Woody Allen, on Intelligent Design
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