>"Evolutionists seem to be especially prone to this mistake. The
>claim that evolution is purposeless and undirected has become almost
>an article of faith among evolutionary biologists.
Forgive me for beating on this drum ad nauseum (but I'd stop if someone
were willing to acknowledge that this is a real issue :-)). That statement
cannot be anything other than an article of faith. We can speculate that a
process has no purpose, or we can declare that we can find no purpose in
it, but establishing that it truly has no purpose to me implies eliminating
all possible purposes. Even in a relatively simple system (compared to the
complexity of living organisms anyway) like a computer program, claiming
that something is without purpose is wildly speculative, as any maintenance
programmer knows. That little piece of code that you can't figure out why
it's there is guaranteed to reach out and bite you (or rather its absence
is) if you decide it serves no purpose and remove it.
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Bill Hamilton
Staff Research Engineer
Chassis and Vehicle Systems
GM R&D Center
Warren, MI