Re: bats flew before echolocation

chris thompson <chris.linthompson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Feb 13, 8:04 pm, j.wilki...@xxxxxxxxx (John Wilkins) wrote:
chris thompson <chris.linthomp...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Feb 13, 5:22 pm, r norman <r_s_norman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
....
You forgot to mention that you are also getting along in years and are
starting in on your "senior moments".

Have we met?

What were we talking about again? I was going to say something
significant...

You were about to provide the scientific theory of Intelligent Design.

Umm... something, or maybe some things, or maybe not things at all but
just thinkings, did something, or somethings, or guided things so that
some or all things that live have things about them that are only
possibly things that thinking things can make happen, unless there are
nonthinking things like natural selection that can make them happen in
which case they are not at all what thinking things are needed to
explain. There may be one thinking thing that did all this, or as many
thinking things as there are functions that need to be explained that
haven't yet been explained by things like selection or just chemistry
and physics. These things may have happened at one time, or many times,
or all the time or in the future or they are things that don't "happen"
but just are, in the same sense that the number one just is, unless it's
not a thing. And these things of which we speak can't be studied by
ordinary means.

This is the theory of Intelligent Design.

(Ssssshhhh, folks. Let's see if he's *really* senile.)

Who are you and why aren't you getting my Metamucil?

--
John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Philosophy
University of Queensland - Blog: scienceblogs.com/evolvingthoughts
"He used... sarcasm. He knew all the tricks, dramatic irony, metaphor,
bathos, puns, parody, litotes and... satire. He was vicious."

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