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To: thames_sider who wrote (839)	3/2/2002 9:41:27 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

When I hear people argue for intelligent design, they usually argue that something as well designed or complex as a dog or a wing or whatever could not have just evolved. If we had in mind a wing and did a study to see if it would evolve, it most likely wouldn't. But some device or other would evolve to keep some critters out of the reach of other critters. It might be a wing. It might be something else entirely. Maybe extraordinary jumping or levitation or whatever. We only recognize a wing after the fact--after it has already evolved and we see what a wondrous thing it is. We have no concept of what other wondrous thing might have evolved in its stead. I think that's what people don't get--the probability of evolution producing something useful as opposed to it producing a specific useful thing. And I don't think anyone has ever had a light bulb go off as a consequence of my explanation. (Sigh) I guess it's one of those things you either get or you don't. Or maybe you have to have studied the computation of probabilities. Karen