Arden Chatfield
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Joined: Jan. 2006
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I had a whole roomful of computer scientists tell me they knew how to build a better data system than mine when we sold our company. I warned the president that they didn't know what they were talking about, but he went with them anyway. $700,000 and a year and half later the 'experts' finished their system to replace my $70,000 system. Almost immediately, the calls started coming in from customers asking for the old system back. |
This analogy doesn't really work. The upstart computer programmers in your scenario differ from Creationists and ID advocates in a few crucial ways:
1) they weren't actively ignorant of computers
2) they didn't have a religious belief system telling them that only the oldest possible solution (with no adaptations) could ever work
3) they wanted to make money, and were thus motivated to come up with a system that actually worked, rather than just 'winning the argument'.
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