The Key to the Universe

Jeff Wilson · 14 Aug 2010, 02:23 · from 2010-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:23:35 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Key to the Universe
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On 8/13/2010 6:26 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 8/13/2010 5:40 PM,  wrote:
>> On 8/13/2010 4:49 PM, wrote:
>>> James Wynn - I mean, who knows what sort of things would interest an
>>> Intelligent Designer if such a person were located, and why would it
>>> matter? Even Richard Dawkins has accepted the concept of a personal
>>> Intelligent
>>> Designer as a non-problem so long as the designer were understood to be
>>> an alien race that developed according natural processes.
>>
>> Jeff Wilson - That's begging the question, in the original sense.
>> Somehow intelligence had arise for the first time in the universe,
>> unless you have a steady state universe where intelligence has always
>> existed. There is very strong support for the Big Bang, so the steady
>> state model is not convincing locally.
>
> True. But, assuming one lived in an environment where all life was
> intelligently designed, questions about how an undefined intelligent
> life might have arisen naturally in an some unknown environment would be
> an entirely speculative question--beyond the realm of hard science. The
> principles of engineering would be the best path for understanding
> biology. Paleontology would be Architectural History.

I don't think this is necessarily the case, unless you include the 
possibility of radically variant physical laws that would prevent any 
kind of emergent, self-organizing behavior; a universe without spiral 
galaxies or snowflakes.


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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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