Re: OT: Intelligent Falling

Once Upon a Midnight Dreary, While Margarita Days Pondered, Weak and
Weary, Over Many a Quaint and Curious Forgotten Post, and then wrote:
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>I don't believe ID requires species with no genetic predecessors.
>That would be creationism. ID allows for the evolution of species.
>It would take intelligence, don't you think, to design a specie that
>can adapt to its surroundings?

Not really. That's actually what happens in evolution. Natural
selection. No designer needed. Mutations occur, and the effect is
either bad (it destroys the organism thereby ensuring it doesn't get
passed on to future generations), neutral (it has no effect on the
organism) or good (it benefits the organism and is passed on to the
future generations). The good mutations are, thereby, naturally
selected and this is how evolution progresses. If the mutation does
not allow the organism to adapt to its surroundings it is, by
definition, a bad mutation, and disappears.

>I believe that a devine being started the process with an eye towards
>diversity. That he allowed for the adaptation of species (my
>personal belief is that he likes to tinker) much as he allowed for
>man's own quest for knowledge. He may have inserted an occasional
>new plant or animal having no genetic predecessor; I couldn't say.
>Its equally possible that unexplained gaps simply can't be explained
>yet.

I think it's the latter. Gaps are being filled in every day, for the
past 150 years, or more. For the life of mean I can't see why any
designer (god, whatever) would want to bother tinkering with such
minutia over billions of years on only one planet in a probably
infinite sized universe.

John P

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