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Are we sufficiently intelligent to become an "intelligent designer" or the "intelligent cause" that the IDists are futilely searching for?
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Not yet, but perhaps soon. We are still in the "plug it in and see what happens" phase of genetic manipulation. Like the alchemists before the 19th century advent of chemistry, geneticists are blind, with no real grasp of why certain genes will do such-and-such thing. Until that time, they are at best tinkerers, not inventors.
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Darwin's Descent of Man could as aptly be titled the Demise of Man. Intelligence of the human kind, I submit, is not conducive to our species' survival.
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I disagree strenuously. I fear this largely tongue-in-cheek statement has become a wildfire, with actual advocates instead of point-makers. The fact that our species has become so prolific and long-lived due to technology is astounding. The moment we colonize other worlds is the day this statement is proven completely and totally false.