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To: Heartlander
The point, of just that one comparison, is that life is extremely more complex than computers.

So far - depending on your definition. Allow me to point out that a computer/robots can do a great many jobs better than a man and can beat even the best human chess player on the planet. Other characteristics believed to be human-only will surely fall to the next few generations of robots/computers. And probably too damn soon.

Computers are merely a tool from our own intelligence (they cannot reproduce and require input from man).

Again, so far.

The question still remains though; did our intelligence come from stupidity?

Let's see, our teeth are a joke, our claws are so weak as to be nonexistent, we can't run fast, our skin is very poorly armored, our babies take a horrendously long time to reach survivability/maturity, so....

I guess we evolved it as a survival trait. Now is that stupid or just terribly, terribly useful.

282 posted on 07/01/2002 6:10:55 PM PDT by balrog666
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To: balrog666
Let's see, our teeth are a joke, our claws are so weak as to be nonexistent, we can't run fast, our skin is very poorly armored, our babies take a horrendously long time to reach survivability/maturity, so....

So, your own intelligence came from stupidity? Let’s get more specific, was there any intelligence required in forming you brain? (I am not referring to your parents)

Your brain:
Now is that stupid or just terribly, terribly useful.

288 posted on 07/01/2002 6:20:47 PM PDT by Heartlander
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To: balrog666
So far - depending on your definition. Allow me to point out that a computer/robots can do a great many jobs better than a man and can beat even the best human chess player on the planet.

Problem with the above is that the person who wrote the program to beat people at chess was an intelligent designer himself. Your statement is just as silly as saying that man is weak because a tractor would beat him in a tug of war. Oh, and BTW, neither the chess progam nor the tractor were the result of random mutation.

325 posted on 07/01/2002 7:55:57 PM PDT by gore3000
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To: balrog666
So far - depending on your definition. Allow me to point out that a computer/robots can do a great many jobs better than a man and can beat even the best human chess player on the planet.

Problem with the above is that the person who wrote the program to beat people at chess was an intelligent designer himself. Your statement is just as silly as saying that man is weak because a tractor would beat him in a tug of war. Oh, and BTW, neither the chess progam nor the tractor were the result of random mutation.

326 posted on 07/01/2002 7:56:02 PM PDT by gore3000
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