Joe IS right about one thing. It is POSSIBLE that life was designed by another intelligence.
However, it seems apparent that s/he didn't leave easy to read instructions on how the whole thing was put together.
But, I would dissagree strongly with the idea that the presence of lower form DNA sequences in humans is not supportive of the idea of evolution. Note that there are sequences in the human genome, which do not appear in any of the lower forms- evidence of enhancement over what had been there before. And also note that such an apparent process has been at work a long time, with plenty of new species following less complex forms.
It isn't surprising if they are essential to life - you think our ancestors would pass on genes that didn't work!? :ding:
Here's why I think it isn't an active intelligence at work: A sufficient intelligence could have forseen species development to the level we have now. s/he would presumably have the ability to create life in these forms from the beggining, instead of seeing so many of them failing to survive onwards and see so many new forms come into being later on. We should actually be able to see evidence of this intelligence at work somehow intervening in what occurs in the world - particularly in reproduction.
To me, it appears more as though the life matrix is highly persistant and adaptive, capable of surviving in it's most basic form in a number of environments, and capable of engendering enhancements and greater complexity in higher forms in specific environments.
It also is highly dependent on the state of it's evolution when dramatic events occur in it's presence, like say a meteor collision! Isn't it interesting that when one hit and wiped out the dinosaurs, that they didn't come back, or life wouldn't evolve back in that direction again? The very fact that that meteor came along when it did, was directly responisible for the changes in the direction of life that led to our evolution! The small mamals that we eventually came from would never have been able to evolve into the other forms between them and us if not for the destruction of the dominant species at that time.
Therefore, life is highly interactive with it's environment, and the "survivability" of a given species is very dependent on it's capacity for adaptation when a severe change occurs. Dinosaurs were highly successful survivors for much, much longer a period of time than man has existed. They could have continued on, developing the way they had for perhaps billions of more years even developing an equal intelligence to humans at some point. :nod:
We could be living in a Universe where the majority of intellgent species are of ancestry more akin to Dinosaurs than Mamals! :eek2:
By the way Joe or Randy, anywhere you see a delberate, active intelligence at work here or in the past, except perhaps at the very inception of life, please let me know, because I can't see it.
:huh:
All I see is a life history where it just keeps chugging along no matter what, very persistant and adaptive, but it's very hard to discern any more spcific intent other than what survives long enough can reproduce.
