h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I think the idea of comparing DNA to a book doesn't quite work here. You make it seem like there was some particular book that was to be made, some purpose. It would of course take a long time making Tom Sawyer by throwing together letters. But you don't need a finished book. Life started out very simple, and then moved on to complexity. To stay in the world of books, I doubt any author just spits out a book ready made. He starts out writing a skeleton, then adds different things here and there making it more complex. And sometimes deletes things that doesn't work, other times adding stuff.

True! But all this editing and prewriting is done by an author, an intelligent, guiding force, whereas evolution is purposeless.

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Evolution is purposeless? Exactly. All it does is to elegantly describe *how* life came to be. It doesn't say why, no science does. So I'm afraid you're missing the point slightly.



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