Suppose a scientist found copyright marks on the human genome.
Or maybe found photographs of the Prime Mover in action.
Etc.
It would be one of the greatest discoveries of all time.
Compare and contrast to the "theory" of "intelligent design" which hasn't advanced much, if any, in over 100 years, since William Paley posited the watchmaker (1802). An idea apparently first advanced by Cicero!
"When you see a sundial or a water-clock, you see that it tells the time by design and not by chance. How then can you imagine that the universe as a whole is devoid of purpose and intelligence, when it embraces everything, including these artifacts themselves and their artificers? "
— Cicero, quoted by Dennett 1995, p. 29, (Gjertsen 1989, p. 199)
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Fascinating idea, and nothing more.
The first time I observed otherwise intelligent beings getting all excited by the idea, I assumed that they had come up with proof that a genome -- any genome -- could not exist as it does without some kind of external input.
Not so. Nothing has been developed on this idea that is more advanced than Paley and Cicero. |
