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To: AndrewC
Look up the patent. And look up the logical fallacy.

I will expostulate further: When you are trying to make an argument that only humans can design, it is unpursuasive to offer as evidence that because humans designed a particular circuit, it is therefore the only candidate to have been designed. I'll go on at greater detail if you still cannot see why this is a post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument.

1,466 posted on 05/15/2003 10:50:20 AM PDT by donh (u)
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1,468 posted on 05/15/2003 10:55:23 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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To: donh
When you are trying to make an argument that only humans can design,

Where did you find that strawman? The discussion has been over the performance of a circuit patented by humans and a virtual one that came about as a result of a genetic algorithm.

1,476 posted on 05/15/2003 11:57:54 AM PDT by AndrewC
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To: donh
it is unpursuasive to offer as evidence that because humans designed a particular circuit, it is therefore the only candidate to have been designed.

Then how about giving us an example of a circuit that was not humanly designed? How about giving us an example of a circuit that assembled itself? How about showing us how a pile of garbage organized itself into a tv set, a car, an airplane?

Your materialist dreams are not evidence, facts, real life examples are what counts.

1,493 posted on 05/15/2003 8:32:21 PM PDT by gore3000
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