Card is lame. I read Speaker for the Dead when I was young and found it even more condescending than Asimov's stuff.
He does make one good point: it is possible that a god or many gods or whatever put the system of evolution/natural selection into place. There is no way to disprove that. My hardcore Christian friend from grad school believes that.
These intelligent designers always try to use the argument that random evolution is not possible because systems are too complex. Well, you can assign a probability to each step happening individually and then multiple it by millions of years. Our problem is that we don't see the zillions and zillions of failures.
If our bodies were truly designed don't you think we'd be a bit more efficient?
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Date: 2006-01-23 12:45 pm (UTC)He does make one good point: it is possible that a god or many gods or whatever put the system of evolution/natural selection into place. There is no way to disprove that. My hardcore Christian friend from grad school believes that.
These intelligent designers always try to use the argument that random evolution is not possible because systems are too complex. Well, you can assign a probability to each step happening individually and then multiple it by millions of years. Our problem is that we don't see the zillions and zillions of failures.
If our bodies were truly designed don't you think we'd be a bit more efficient?