Hi meekerdb The world is contingent and therefore not perfect. I don't see the problem.
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/3/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." ----- Receiving the following content ----- From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-02, 15:28:15 Subject: Re: No Chinese Room Necessary On 9/2/2012 9:09 AM, John Clark wrote: > 6) Evolution has no foresight: This is the most important reason of all. > A jet engine works better than a prop engine in an airplane. I give you a > prop engine and tell you to turn it into a jet, but you must do it while > the engine is running, you must do it in one million small steps, and you > must do it so every one of those small steps immediately improves > the operation > of the engine. Eventually you would get an improved engine of some > sort, but it > wouldn't look anything like a jet. Good exposition. But it's not the case every small step must be an improvement. It's sufficient that it not be a degradation. Brent "What designer would put a recreational area between two waste disposal sites?" --- Woody Allen, on Intelligent Design -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.