Intelligent Software Design vs Evolution

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 - 12:28 in Mathematics & Economics

Do our genomes look designed? Let's address this point, hoisted from the comments of this post: Actually, shared genetics between chimps and humans is agnostic with respect to evolution or "intelligent design". In software engineering, you often find shared code (or even junk code) in the source of various projects as it develops from "Product 1.0" to "Product 2.0" to "Product 3.0". I.e., it's a strawman argument to assume the "intelligent designer" started from scratch for chimps and humans. That doesn't sound intelligent at all. Like a software designer, the "designer" would have hacked up whatever existing code base he had to read more

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