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The article is from today's FT editorial pages, and the excerpt provides insight to connections between Darwin's theoy and today's business world.

Click on the source link ... It's a fun read ...

1 posted on 01/09/2009 9:48:47 AM PST by OldNavyVet
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John, Paul, George or Ringo?


2 posted on 01/09/2009 9:52:28 AM PST by Long Island Pete (For the first time in my life, I am afraid for my country.)
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I know they are trying to be funny, but there is a big difference between intelligent actors and random chance events. Many of the things that intelligent agents do are not particularly intelligently thought through. Still, intelligent agents regularly identify courses of action that random chance would not stumble upon in the history of the universe. Thus there is a continuum of chance-to-intelligently-directed changes in entities directed by intelligent agents.

The examples of thoughtlessness/stupidity should not be taken as evidence the intelligent agents (such as managers) are on par with random chance, which is highly constrained to produced only limited, gradualistic evolutionary phenomena.

3 posted on 01/09/2009 9:55:27 AM PST by Liberty1970 (Democrats are not in control. God is. And Thank God for that!)
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"Eat ****!???"

4 posted on 01/09/2009 9:58:43 AM PST by weegee (Obamunism, just another word for the policies of a NeoCom.)
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Okay! No Problemo!.............

6 posted on 01/09/2009 10:15:55 AM PST by Red Badger (I was sad because I had no shoes to throw, until I met a reporter who had no feet.....)
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7 posted on 01/09/2009 11:05:34 AM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (Public Employees: Honor Your Oaths! Defend the Constitution from Enemies--Foreign and Domestic!)
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Since Darwin had no method to see, understand, or comprehend the incredible complex engineering which takes place within the cell (the invention of the electron microscope and the discovery of the double-helix DNA strand were decades away), we must ponder the question: does the cell possess the intelligence or engineered capability to discern what is a positive external influence or what will have a negative impact on it’s existence and/or future?

Negative influences result in the death of the cell, its impairment (benign), or malignant cancerous activity. Positive gain in genetic material results in such anomalies as Down’s Syndrome, Tay Sachs, or Sickle Cell Anemia. Hardly an evolutionary gain for our species.

The amount of data in a single strand of DNA has been compared to the Library of Congress. As a network engineer I know that changes in data do not improve a program, they render it useless or problematic at best. Ever have a corrupted program on your computer spontaneously develop new and improved features?

Evolution contradicts the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and the truth is we are seeing many species which have gone extinct over time (even before the Industrial Revolution) for a variety of reasons. We are not finding newly evolved species. Adaptation is NOT evolution! The example of a bird’s beak growing longer during periods of drought does not prove evolution, it simply shows an adaptive built-in mechanism which was pre-engineered. The proof: the same beak will retract to its original size when the drought ends.

Does anyone think that at the sub-cellular level decisions are being made to evolve with the environment? Hardly. There is no mental, thought-revolving tool at that level and the brain cannot “will” cells to spontaneously evolve in accordance with circumstance (otherwise we’d all grow wings and fly to work when rush hour occurs).

At the end of the day, the best of the best scientists have not a clue as to how life started other than the backs of crystals with 250 complex protein strands coming together in precisely the correct order. Try taking 4 dice and rolling them 250 times in an exact numerical sequence - it isn’t happening. It is mathematically next to impossible. Even if it did once, the chances of such a cell spontaneously developing the tools to regenerate, exchange gases, excrete waste, take in nutrients, etc. are infinitesimal plus the chances of surviving for any length of time in a brutal environment make this an impossible proposition.

And I haven’t even touched upon the genesis of the universe and all of the laws of physics and mathematics which conveniently came into being existence. Everything points to Intelligent Design and an Intelligent Designer though the term “God” frightens the essence of every secularist. They would gladly prefer the terms “seeding” and “aliens” that God - but where would they have come from (no doubt in their minds a Darwinian evolution)?


10 posted on 01/09/2009 11:56:30 AM PST by datakcy (Declaring our love for God, country, and family ISN'T hate speech - it's common sense!)
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21 posted on 01/09/2009 2:09:33 PM PST by Repeal The 17th
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LOL! ....this should be interesting.
27 posted on 01/09/2009 6:46:59 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (just b/c you're paranoid, doesn't mean "they" aren't out to get you.. :^)
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30 posted on 01/10/2009 8:56:46 AM PST by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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