Tim Cook wrote:
> "Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> According to his book, all the species that now exist were "programmed 
>> into" the first lifeforms when the Intelligent Designer first built 
>> them. Over time, these species came and went, according to the 
>> Designer's original plan.
> 
> Well, if you make your program well enough, and let it run for 
> however-many aeons, and it spits out huge varieties of things, couldn't 
> you say that, in a way, they were "programmed into" the first things?

He made it sound as if all the species that would ever exist, and the 
exact time that they would arrise and die out was pre-ordined in the DNA 
of the first lifeforms. In particular, that the "unused" parts of the 
DNA are actually the encodings for later lifeforms.

All of which is *highly* implausible. How is the supposed Designer 
supposed to know how the climate of the planet is going to evolve over 
the next thousand millennia? Or, for that matter, how do you encode 
several hundred billion genomes into just one (deterministically)?

Of course, he could be right... but it's not falsifiable.

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