Re: [OT] voting

[Richard Lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Monday 08 December 2003 21:49, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 18:12, s. keeling wrote:

[...]
> eternal power and deity; demonstrated,
> among other things, by the immense and beautiful complexity of living
> systems.  Paul cited DNA.  On a "higher" level, photosynthesis and
> blood-clotting are two very complex systems which need every part of
> them to work 
[...]
Come now, the very compexity of these systems and the  "re-use" of a 
small set of genes across the animal (and plant) kingdom for similar 
but differing functions argues for an evolved origin (as does 
continuing evolution).  Intelligent creation is almost inconceivably 
unlikely.  And if one posits external intelligent intervention, it 
could take an infinite number of forms, so it is hardly worth 
considering the possibility that such an agency would have any 
measurable similarities to one or another set of folk myths that have 
been used for a few hundred years to help control populations by the 
power elites in those populations.

-- 
richard