[cap-talk] Off-topic: watchmaker argument

David-Sarah Hopwood david.hopwood at industrial-designers.co.uk
Tue Feb 3 04:54:56 EST 2009


Mike Samuel wrote:
> I came up with a critique of intelligent design recently by arguing that the
> designer in the blind watchmaker analogy has to (1) work alone, or (2)
> produce designs without any feedback or input from other designers.

The watchmaker argument against evolution is flawed in many different ways.
Here's a fun demonstration of one of them, showing that a functional watch
*can* evolve:

<http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mcAq9bmCeR0>

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David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥



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