May 18, 2007
WE ARE ALL INTELLIGENT DESIGNISTS NOW:
Q&A: 'Future computer will use intelligent design of DNA' (Times of India, 18 May, 2007)
Nevenka Dimitrova, senior director, Philips Research-India, divides her time between Bangalore, Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Briarcliff Manor (New York, USA). She tells R Edwin Sudhir that she chose to work in India because of the exciting possibilities of the sheer number of people, the high quality of research and because 'there are more textures to life in this colourful country'. Her research interests include health care and data mining:
Q: What can biological systems do for computation?
There are some pretty smart computing systems in our body, starting with the DNA. The ultimate aim is to create a computer that uses the intelligent design of the DNA molecules.
You know the paradigm has shifted when folks don't even pretend Nature is random anymore.
Nothing is random. Just mysteriously structured.
Posted by: ghostcat at May 18, 2007 1:25 PMNobody thinks Nature is purely random, and I doubt if even the most devout believer thinks nothing in Nature is random, and that God is a sort of universal puppetmaster who decides the outcome of every coin flip and the precise trajectory of every drop in every rainstorm. The complexity of the universe comes from the interplay of natural laws with randomness in myriad ways and degrees. The argument is over the precise nature and origin of all this.
Posted by: PapayaSF at May 19, 2007 12:12 AMOf course even the true Darwinists don't follow where their theory leads--life would be intolerable for them. It's one of the things that makes them tolerable.
Posted by: oj at May 19, 2007 6:41 AMAs I've said before, different things are true to different degrees and on different levels. The Uncertainty Principle is true on the quantum level, but unlike photons, you can know both the position and speed of your car.
So does Darwin's theory "lead" somewhere you disagree with? Apparently, but 1) that doesn't refute the theory, and 2) the theory may well not apply at the extremes, but may still be true at other levels: i.e. it explains the diversity and development of life on Earth, but says nothing about the existence of God.
Posted by: PapayaSF at May 19, 2007 9:05 PMYes, you, of course, have to deny the Uncertainty Principle, which is true, as you deny Darwinism, which is false, because of where they lead you.
It's cute, but ludicrous.
Posted by: oj at May 20, 2007 6:45 AM