Re: Intelligent design on s.b.e?

Ron O wrote:
On Jun 20, 5:53 pm, Tim Tyler <seemy...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

James Gardner: Biocosm;http://www.amazon.co.uk/Biocosm-Scientific-Evolution-Intelligent-Arch...

James Gardner: Intelligent-Universe;http://www.amazon.com/Intelligent-Universe-Emerging-Mind-Cosmos/dp/15...

....?

According to James Gardner, humans may well be the products of
intelligent design. However the ideas in these books seems on topic
here to me. At any rate, they are pretty centrally concerned with
biology and evolution.

Also, intelligent design is part of evolution these days - what with
genetic engineering, etc. I don't think that discussion of this whole,
important mechanism of evolution ought to be ruled out here on a-
priori grounds.

None of these books seem to have much to do with any science of
evolutionary biology. I doubt that anyone is going to be stopped from
putting up something from one of the above books, but modified
anthropic principle would be pretty lame in this news group.

Gardner's hypothesis could certainly do with some concrete supporting
evidence.

Genetic engineering isn't the type of intelligent design that
gets discussed by most proponents of intelligent design.

Right - but it is one type of intelligent design which is on topic
here.

Intelligence is not really a new player on the scene, either.
Intelligence has been at work in evolution for millions of years.
The choices of intelligent agents guide the path which evolution
takes - via mechanisms which include the Baldwin effect and
sexual selection. Humans are very literally the product of
intelligent agents.

In the future, "evolution" will be practically synonymous with
"intelligent design".

The era of natural selection and random mutations were just the
evolutionary process booting up. Once engineers are produced,
the development of organisms takes on rather a different character.
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