Re: "Intelligent design"

Don A. Gilmore wrote:
[...]
> You're still missing my point, Mike. I'm saying that devices then
> were on a relatively elementary level in comparison to modern
> devices, like jet airplanes, robots and power plants, because they
> built them without using science as we know it today: actual
> documented and proven mathematical formulas, methods and theorems
> that explain and predict the behavior of things in the real world.
> This is science that must be painstakingly studied, learned and
> practiced over many years' time before one can even come close to
> designing modern, complex devices in today's engineering world.
This
> type of science is a very recent phenomenon in the course of
history.
> Of all the knowledge contained in the more than fifty engineering
> books here on my bookshelf, virtually none of it existed as little
as
> a few centuries ago.

I'm not trying to deny it, of course. I think I get defensive when I
think people are underestimating the achievements of the old days.

Parable: Once, on a hilltop castle in Wales, we were deafened by a
low-flying jet fighter: I reflected that the F-15 represented
essentially the same people as those who'd built and manned the
castle.

--
Mike.


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