Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
>>> By the time it got to the part about "maybe at some point in the 
>>> future we will have the technology to design our own genome and 
>>> travel back in time to seed the Earth with it", I was in a state of 
>>> utter disbelief. *How* can somebody who claims to be a scientist 
>>> seriously propose such nonesense?!
>>
>> Hmm, can't a scientist speculate?  Thought experiments, anyone?
> 
> "Hmm, how could something this complex have arrisen? Well, maybe it was 
> designed by aliens from another planet."
> 
> "Well, yeah, but then how did *they* arrise in the first place? You 
> haven't really answered the question, just moved it to another planet."
> 
> "Hmm, well, maybe in the future *we* will became sufficiently advanced 
> to both design entire genomes and also travel through time. So maybe 
> *we* are the 'aliens'?"
> 
> "Uh... now you've just hidden the problem inside a temporal paradox 
> instead of answering it."

Hmm, yea.  It makes a lot less sense now. :P

BTW, wasn't he supposed to be supporting a creationist view?  He's 
contradicting even that by suggesting man created man! O_o

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