Re: Evidence for "Big Bang Theory"
John Wilkins (wilkins@wehi.edu.au)
Thu, 11 May 1995 16:57:56 +1000
In article <3on0r9$4u4@gap.cco.caltech.edu>, carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU wrote:
: Note: Though the above analogy is closer to how evolution works than is the
: standard fundamentalist bullshit originally posted, it's not strictly
: analogous: Both analogies implicitly assume you've got a final design
intended
: from the outset. That's not the case with evolution; it's just another straw
: man thrown in by fundies whose primary source of information about
evolution is
: the ICR.
Perhaps the purposive element might be avoided if the box have Rolex
shaped holes in it's base, and before that, Rolex-part shaped holes. It's
pretty easy to see that "random" sorting can fill a lot of holes with
objects the right shape.
Douglas Adams once made a nice comment about a puddle of water that saw
how well it fit it's hole, and inferred from that the existence of a
holemaker and that the hole had been dug to suit it. Teleologies seems to
result from this sort of inverted reasoning.
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John "Chris" Wilkins, Assoc. Prof. of Recent Runes, Uni of Ediacara
Also: Head of Communication Services, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute
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