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Posted by: Frank 05/06/2008, 01:17:28 (About author)
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I asked: So, if you found a watch in a Cambrian deposit, you wouldn't assume that intelligence had been involved in its production? DWA: Well, Bulova or Timex? Engraved? I would look with a very jaundiced eye at the well driller that made that claim, and try to speak privately with his wife/girlfirend. Pick a watch, any watch. The challenge still stands, but now all of a sudden you are a skeptic about detecting design. Go figure. DWA: Well, flailing around some, after that parry, I have heard about those dwarf mammoths that persisted on some offshore Siberian islands. I myself cannot see that they are any less unique and irreducibly complex than a watch. So, which part of them shows intelligent design that cannot be explained by descent with modification from other larger mastodons? DWA: Actually, on reflection, their appearance/persistence may be quite a saga, more impressive than someone merely designing/embellishing a sophisticated pendulum. The persistence of some small populations is borderline miraculous, isn't it? Rare things happen rarely, but if you find a diamond in a kimberlite plug, is it a miracle? Are you suggesting that those little pachyderms were assembled de novo on their islands by an interventional intelligence? DWA: quoting me: "-----------------------------anaconda : -------------tyrannosaurs : ---------------------chicken" Are you indicating a succession, a sequence there? All the more so odd, in that sequence that anacondas would have a vestigal pelvis, so a mind-over-matter head start on getting to be a walking tyrannosaurus. No, the formatting didn't carry well from one browser to another, but either way, you copied it wrong. Here it is again:
It shows that the lineage leading to anacondas diverged from the lineage leading to dinosaurs before the lineage leading to birds diverged from dinosaurs. |
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