afdave
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Faid ... | Quote | | "Technology" is not a stand-alone absolute. They relate the signs to specific qualities and capabilities of a specific designer: HUMANS. That's how they determine if they're dealing with an artifact: Otherwise, there's no telling what the museums of the world would be filled with. |
Nonsense. If you find a piece of pottery--nothing else, I guarantee you that you would say it was designed. Go ahead. Make my day. Disagree. Make a fool of yourself.
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Faid ... | Quote | | Alberts does not say cells are REAL machines, dave. YOU are the only one that does. |
Alberts ... | Quote | It is my hope that some of the young scientists who read this issue of Cell will come to the realization that much of the great future in biology lies in gaining a detailed understanding of the inner workings of the cell’s many marvelous protein machines. With this perspective, students may well be motivated to gain the background in the quantitative sciences that they will need to explore this subject successfully. But they will need faculty in our colleges and universities to lead them.
Acknowledgments
I am indebted to Jonathan Alberts for his explanations of how engineers analyze machines, Mei Lie Wong for preparation of the figure,and Teresa Donovan for manuscript preparation.
Alberts on Cells |
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Faid ... | Quote | | Therefore, dave, you have broadened the term "machine" so much it means absolutely nothing, |
Not me ... Alberts. Blame him for your current mental stress.
Faid ... | Quote | | Same old, same old... "Technology doesn't happen by chance", as in "(I say) this is a thing that does not happen by chance, therefore it does not happen by chance". Woooo for reasoning! |
No. OUR technology does not happen by chance, therefore, why should we think OTHER technology happens by chance. Just because all the science professor lemmings say so? No thanks!
Faid ... | Quote | | Religion is NOT going to be taught in your Universities, dave. |
Uh ... it already is being taught ... it's called Darwinism.
Faid ... | Quote | | Oh and: before you get all uppity again and think you have a clue what McNeil says, READ his article dave. It will save you from future embarrassment. |
I did. He says the modern synthesis is dead. What part of that do you not understand?
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A DILEMMA FOR THE COMMITTED NATURALIST
A Hi-tech alien spaceship lands on earth ... DESIGNED.
A Hi-tech alien rotary motor found in a cell ... NOT DESIGNED.
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