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Re: Ask a mammoth about their tribal legends? -- DWA Post Reply Top of the thread Forum
Posted by: Frank
05/06/2008, 01:17:28

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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:
____________________________________anacondas
_________:_______________tyrannosaurus
_____________: ________________________chickens

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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