On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:52:23 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The book, from what I've heard of it, uses the idea of a clockwork as
>> its premise - something so mechanically complex that it must have been
>> created rather than evolved or grown.
> 
> Well, mechanical devices don't evolve because they're not alive. It's
> very difficult to have darwinian evolution without birth and death and
> genetics and such.
> 
> But if you set up an ecosystem with gears and hands and weights and
> rachets and things like that, and apply selection pressure for accurate
> watches, suddenly you get pretty accurate watches evolving.

Essentially that video you pointed me at.  Fascinating stuff, of course - 
but because a watch is an inanimate object, it can't evolve, and that's 
the point those who think the book I referenced is a good explanation for 
God's existence do.  I happen to disagree with them.

Jim

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