From: John Beckett 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> Where everyone loses their perspective is when they extrapolate from
> the plentiful evidence of minute changes over time within a single species
> to trans-species evolution, and then go completely off the all reasonable
> perspective cliff ...

Hmmm. I suspect you won't ever take up this offer, but if you were to read
a bit about evolution you would discover:

1. In 100 million generations it REALLY is possible for minute changes to
build up to quite amazing results. Apparently (I'm no expert), eyes have
evolved 40 times (e.g. human eyes are totally unrelated to the eyes in an
octopus).

2. It's the molecular evidence which is the most compelling. All (that is,
ALL) life that has so far been studied anywhere has certain key
functionality at the molecular level that is VERY similar to all other
life.

By all means, believe in intelligent design. But how would an intelligent
designer work? Would the ID plop everything down just as we see it,
complete with fake evidence that evolution works? Or, would the ID plop
down the basic tools from which everything follows?

A good thought experiment is to consider how humans might design an
android, complete with decent artificial intelligence. IMHO the attempts to
program AI are not going to work. What we might one day succeed in doing is
building a machine that can learn, and it could accumulate the rules of
grammar and social interaction and mathematics, etc.

John

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