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To: bondserv
Uh, the point is that these reptiles had just evolved warm-bloodedness.

Evolutionist claims are preposterous. You are pretending like my computer -- which has a flawed operating system made by Microsoft -- just needs a little kick in the side, or power surge to move one of those little 0's to a 1's postion. Presto chango we have Excel birthed. The API use the same types of calls. There is the proof.

For our next trick we will expose the computer to sunlight. The radiation zaps those little ones and zeros over millions of years, and SHAZAM Word is birthed.

These mutations are on a roll. With the help of some Chimpanzees we will have the robot from "Lost in Space" in no time (only if the computer is restricted to an isolated environment like a junk yard where it can do the "Punk-Eek"). Danger Will Robinson!

It really, really happens
You must believe it's true
Smarties are lined up
To try and brainwash you

It all ties together
With a little glue
From the goo, the zoo, to you
Death is nothing new

60 posted on 01/17/2005 10:14:12 PM PST by bondserv (Sincerity with God is the most powerful instigator for change! † [Check out my profile page])
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To: bondserv

Actually, that is an interesting example you provide. Artificial intelligence has resulted in computers which attain abilities by means comparable to how evolution functions. Through a process of trial and error, and simply retaining what works best, computers have shown how extremely simple programs can result in fantastically complex mimicry of human speech, including syntax, vocabulary and tonation that can fool most people who aren't aware they are speaking to a computer.

But this goes back to one issue which I will readily acknowledge: Evolution explains how one life form becomes another life form, and even how complexity is added. It does not explain the earliest origin of simple life. The first cause of biology has not been linked to the first cause of physics.

There are two or three events in the creation of the human being which are not adequately explained by science: About 3 billion years ago, primordial soup yielded an organism. There exists nothing more than weak guesses as to how this happened.

And about 20,000 years ago, some primitive woman emerged so superior to those around her that of all the other woman, not one of their maternal lineages survived.

There is also the problem of consciousness: breaking human behavior down to biological cause and effect does not explain the phenomenon of why we experience consciousness. Nor is it necesarily possible to ever do so. Biology can explain the machine, but it cannot explain the ghost in the machine.

This is where science must not be confused with the nihilist coverage in the news media. Any scientist worth his salt knows of these problems. There are, you see, choices between nihilism and creationism.


63 posted on 01/17/2005 11:07:23 PM PST by dangus
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