thomas malloy wrote:
Do I want the Parksie retirement fund to pay for them? No. Is my taking
herbs going to affect his health? No. But he's from the government, and
he's here to help!
Park is from the University of Maryland, which I suppose is part of the
Maryland government, but that's a stretch. I believe he has many
sympathizers within the government, and also within the APS.
Even Jed, atheist that he is, admits that there has to be some kind of an
energy based intelligence which organized life.
Nope. Not me. Nothing "organized" life as far as I know. It is like free
market capitalism: it works well precisely because there is no overall
organization, no plan, and no one in charge.
Energy increases the information content in living systems (mainly
expressed as DNA), but nothing can organize life, plan it, or give it any
purpose. It is manifestly without purpose.
All what we in the Intelligent Design movement are asking is that children
be instructed in how complicated a living organism is.
Complication is no indication of plan or intent. The stock market is one of
the most complicated human institutions but it is also the most random,
unpredictable, and unplanned. That is, as I said, its greatest strength,
and the source of its survival. The same goes for life. If the most
intelligent creature imaginable were to try to plan it or direct the
development of life, first it would fail because life is unimaginably
complex, and second the end product would be millions of times less complex
and surprising. Intelligence always reuses good ideas, and it is rational,
whereas evolution has come up with countless redundant ways of
accomplishing the same thing, and at the same times it also reuses some
mechanisms to achieve utterly different purposes, in ways that would be
pathologically crazy if an intelligent creature were in charge.
- Jed
- Re: Islands of Ignorance Jed Rothwell
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