In message <[log in to unmask]>,
Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> writes
>It seems that no one on this thread understands evolution.  The analogy
>about the 747 is totally flawed and no one pointed that out.
>
>If you really wanted to compare the spontaneous construction of a Boeing 747
>to the evolutionary progression needed to "build" a human being, you would
>definitely not start with parts of a plane in a junk yard.
>
>The corresponding start would be piles of raw material scattered across the
>landscape (just to make it easy.)  The ore would have to extract, refine and
>transform itself into the various metals used in a plane.  Silicon would
>have to extract and purify itself to turn into glass and computer parts.
>The computers would have to spontaneously program themselves.  Various
>hydrocarbons would have to combine and transform themselves into plastic and
>fuel and hoses. The rubber for the tires, the titanium for the fan blades,
>the leather for the seats, etc...
>
>These parts would then have to attach themselves together to produce an
>aerodynamic machine that can fly.
>
>When you learn about evolution, you have to stop thinking about assembling
>parts together; you have to understand how the parts themselves evolved from
>swamp water.  You have to take it to the molecular level, that's when it
>gets interesting.
>
>
>
>Denys

Quite right. And isn't it interesting how evolution had its products
flying millions of years before ours did?
--
Roy Brown        'Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be
Kelmscott Ltd     useful, or believe to be beautiful'  William Morris

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