How intelligent design *might* work.

[langostino]

Intelligent design folks often appeal to machines in analogy. A machine, or a bit of computer code, exhibits the same sort of interlocking complexity as life does. The machine is clearly intelligently designed, ergo life is intelligently designed

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[spuma_spumata]

I have always found the evolution of car design to be quite interesting. I like how you use that idea here. The "nature is a machine, ergo it must have a designer" argument pisses me off. "If you found a watch on the beach would you assume that it had a watchmaker?" Of course I would! If I found a universe on the beach however... I would pawn that shit!

It also bothers me how much creationist apologists (and christians in general) are unintentionally badmouthing their god by analogizing all of his abilities with human intelligence. If you're gonna be religious, why not stick with good old fashioned mysticism?

[chinchilla_toes]

Heh. Scads.