best argument against evolution? (the self replicating robot)

[xianghua]

hi. i have an interesting argument: lets say that scientists will create a robot with a living traits like self replication and may contain even DNA. i guess we may all agree that this kind of speciel robot will be evidence for design and not a natural process like evolution. if so: why not human itself that have the same traits?

 

[lesliedellow]

Humans who were the result of evolution would have the fingerprints of their evolutionary history left behind in their DNA. The only way your "special robot" could contain the same genetic evidence would be through deliberate fakery.

 

[xianghua]

Humans who were the result of evolution would have the fingerprints of their evolutionary history left behind in their DNA. The only way your "special robot" could contain the same genetic evidence would be through deliberate fakery.

so such a robot will be evidence for design or evolution?

 

[lesliedellow]

so such a robot will be evidence for design or evolution?

Let us put it this way, if somebody produced an exact copy of Magna Carta, would that make the real Magna Carta any less evidence of the beginnings of the British Parliament? Likewise any robot containing a carbon copy of human DNA.

 

[xianghua]

Let us put it this way, if somebody produced an exact copy of Magna Carta, would that make the real Magna Carta any less evidence of the beginnings of the British Parliament? Likewise any robot containing a carbon copy of human DNA.

it will not be the origianl magna but it will look the same. we can say the same for a car: if somebody produced an exact copy of some car. it will not by a car?

 

[lesliedellow]

it will not be the origianl magna but it will look the same. we can say the same for a car: if somebody produced an exact copy of some car. it will not by a car?

It will look the same, and, because it is an exact copy of the original, it will contain the same evidence of our evolutionary past as the original.

 

[Loudmouth]

hi. i have an interesting argument: lets say that scientists will create a robot with a living traits like self replication and may contain even DNA. i guess we may all agree that this kind of speciel robot will be evidence for design and not a natural process like evolution. if so: why not human itself that have the same traits?

No one is claiming that the existence of DNA or the ability to reproduce is evidence for evolution. Things like the nested hierarchy and the fossil record are what people cite as evidence for evolution.