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To: Southack
You have butchered our poor language if you think that you can skate by with your bizarre claims - by equating "imitating/mimicking" with either reverse-engineering or "coincidentally working in a similar fashion".

Nothing compared to the way creationists butcher logic and reason.

When the first telegraph repeater station was set up, it is accurate to say that it coincidentally worked in a similar fashion to how human brains transmit information, but it is NOT accurate to say that man was mimicking or imitating human brains with that repeater station. For one thing, man didn't even KNOW how the human brain transmitted information back in 1850!

First you acknowledge the point, then argue against it in a fashion that supports it, about what I'd expect.

Whether it is a 'conscious' imitation or not is besides the point. Whether you want to admit that a highway is analogous to a blood stream as Base 4 is analogous to Base 2 in their respective functions is of no matter to me.

The fact is you are desperately trying to divert the issue by niggling on these little details from the fact that there is no scientific basis for creationism, and that asserting so is damaging to real science. I understand that my analogies are beyond you, that's to be expected.

75 posted on 02/15/2003 5:55:44 PM PST by LogicWings
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To: LogicWings
"Whether it is a 'conscious' imitation or not is besides the point."

No, it isn't "beside" the point, it is CENTRAL to the point. If ONLY intelligent entities can be shown to be responsible for a process (e.g. a computer software program), then it isn't very credible to suggest that non-intelligent entities are responsible for a that or an analagous but unknown process.

"Whether you want to admit that a highway is analogous to a blood stream as Base 4 is analogous to Base 2 in their respective functions is of no matter to me."

That's just jibberish. Base 4 math is an order of magnitude of complexity GREATER than Base 2 (i.e. Binary) math. Yet show me where Binary programs form without Intelligent Intervention and THEN we'll be able to discuss whether the vastly more complex Base-4 instructions in DNA could even potentially be formed without Intelligent Intervention.

But the burden of proof is on you. Where is that mystical non-intelligence-formed Base-2 software program?!

After all, I can show PLENTY of examples of such software that has been made WITH intelligent intervention (so I've done my burden of proof - that leaves you out in the cold again)...

80 posted on 02/15/2003 6:05:46 PM PST by Southack (Media bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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