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To: Dayuhan who wrote (689)	3/1/2002 8:15:06 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

An expression of an emotional desire for a purpose?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (689)	3/2/2002 8:33:55 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The time frame is meaningless. That is the point of addressing the Great Monkey Thesis. The creation of apparent order works well enough if you are talking about juxtaposition over the vastness of time, but not if you are talking about complex systems. Whether the mechanisms are created by blind chance or God, they have to be created. There is no begging of the question, at worst it would be a rhetorical coloration. The fact that systems that do not work disappear is immaterial. The question is whether the kind of order produced by randomness can create the kind of calibrated and interdependent complexity necessary to make the gradual accumulation of parts add up to something. The blunt forces of nature would never make clock. Why assume they would make a puppy, which is much more complex?