Science, Religion:
MP (Computer Scientist) re "
Creationism as Anti-Theory"

I wanted to give a response to JoT'S denial of the existence of God, and theory of evolution...Computer scientist,unlike other scientist(which you are, i assume) leave nothing to chance. Everything must be intricately designed, implemented, tested for stability.

If I am designing a screen for an RPG game, and I opt to randomly "create" an image, I have 24-bit(16.7M colors) and 1024x768 resolution(786kB of pixels)What are the odds that I will create a useful image from these figures? Oddly enough, that is what evolution is in theory. Of all possibilities for land mass without life, or life without intelligent life, it is so widely accepted that randomity is the answer.

Anyway, to wrap this up, I will close by stating that if I ever tried to convince someone that I had a program that was generated from random opcodes and operands being sent to the CPU, and it was fully functional, stable, and useful, they would laugh me off of the net. As far as evolving, I do not see Windows operating system upgrading without significant man hours designing and implementing new features. Or you can leave it to chance and get the blue screen of death for the rest of your life. Just thought I would share a different type of "Science" with you...

—MP
July 2002

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