Re: Just read this.

From: Hiram Gonash <okfreddy_at_hotmail.com_at_hypermail.org>
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 19:27:55 -0000

--- In OliveStarlightOrchestra_at_yahoogroups.com, mayhem <meurtre_at_e...>
wrote:
> > The old Intelligent Designer argument. (We develop complex
machines so
> > who developed us?) It ignores the hypothesis that evolution can
lead
> > to awareness and complex intelligence given enough time and
umpteen
> > millions and billions of years seems to be enough time. I think we
> > count as support for that.
>
> That's a little circular for me.
>

Circular? We create complex mechanisms. We are complex. Ergo there is
an intelligent designer. THAT'S circular or spirally - who created the
intelligent deisgner?

I'm suggesting an alternative hypothesis - that evolution could
account for our existence. Complexity can arise from simplicity.
Nothing circular there - just my low-blood sugar way of presenting it
sucks.

[snip]

>
> I actually linked you, after all this time. Then Dave Moskowitz
wrote me
> a note asking "who is Mahatma?" I told him.
>

Thanks for the link - I got tired of visiting my own site every hour
just to jack up the numbers. To think I may have 5 unique readers
other than myself. Poor bastards.

> > P.S. My oldest will have his Bar Mitzvah is 5 years :)
>
> I see you're able to live with your internal contradictions; huzzah.
> I'm pretty sure I've made peace with mine.
>

No internal contradictions. Kid has to get money to pay for college
somehow AND I obey the spouse in all matters non-computer related.
Received on 2003-06-02 12:29:25