Re: Putting evolution to work on the assembly line

Ron Chitwood (chitw@flash.net)
Wed, 22 Jul 1998 12:00:09 -0500

I'm curious. Why do you think Occam's Razor supports atheism?

Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth
shall make you free. John 8:32
Ron Chitwood
chitw@flash.net

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> From: John E. Rylander <rylander@prolexia.com>
> To: Pim van Meurs <entheta@eskimo.com>; 'Gary Collins'
<etlgycs@etl.ericsson.se>; evolution@calvin.edu
> Subject: RE: Putting evolution to work on the assembly line
> Date: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 11:25 AM
>
> Pim,
>
> No intelligence was required initially? How would you get -that- out of
> this article?
>
> If instead your point is meant only as speculative natural atheology,
that's
> conceivable, but seems more like a (counter-intuitive) presumption than
any
> evidentially-based assertion. (I was fascinated to find that even E. O.
> Wilson, Mr. Sociobiology himself, considers himself a deist.)
>
> If I were independently convinced of the truth of atheism (say, by the
> problem of evil; or because I thought Ockham's razor required me to be an
> atheist unless I had -proof- to the contrary), of course, then I'd
probably
> argue the same thing. But since I'm not....
>
> --John
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pim van Meurs [mailto:entheta@eskimo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:41 PM
> To: 'Gary Collins'; evolution@calvin.edu; rylander@prolexia.com
> Subject: RE: Putting evolution to work on the assembly line
>
>
> Gary Collins:
> The article states that 'No intelligence made the designs. They just
> evolved.'
> This is true to a point, of course; but surely it is the intelligence of
> those who designed the software and the hardware (ie the workstations
> on which the software was run) which makes the whole thing possible. This
is
> a factor which is sometimes overlooked.>>
>
> So perhaps intelligence is required initially but then it can freely
evolve
> ?
>
> Or perhaps no intelligence was even required initially and it freely
evolved
> ?
>
>
>