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Something I've never understood is the creationist/ID insistence that similarities = common design = common designer.
It seems like a giant leap from each point to the next, especially when we know in human design and manufacture that similarities do not always point to the same designer. This is especially evident when it comes to design standards; namely a common standard that is used by multiple, independent designers.
A perfect example are web sites. There are thousands of web designers around the world creating all manner of web pages we browse on a daily basis. Yet, if you peel back the layer and look at the underlying code, you'll see that a common language is used (HTML - Hypertext Markup Language).
For example, if I look at the code for this very web page I am typing on as we speak, I can see things like <script> tags, <body> tags, <div> tags, etc. If I jump to another site, say the BBC news or Reddit or YouTube, I'll see a lot of the same sort of code. There is a basic common thread running through all these different web sites.
Now does this means the exact same person built all these sites? Of course not. Rather it was independent designers all using a common standard.
My question to creationists/ID proponents is if there is an insistence that utilization of DNA points to a "common design" how do you know it's still not the result of independent designers adhering to a common standard? How would you ever tell that there is only one designer?
It seems like a giant leap from each point to the next, especially when we know in human design and manufacture that similarities do not always point to the same designer. This is especially evident when it comes to design standards; namely a common standard that is used by multiple, independent designers.
A perfect example are web sites. There are thousands of web designers around the world creating all manner of web pages we browse on a daily basis. Yet, if you peel back the layer and look at the underlying code, you'll see that a common language is used (HTML - Hypertext Markup Language).
For example, if I look at the code for this very web page I am typing on as we speak, I can see things like <script> tags, <body> tags, <div> tags, etc. If I jump to another site, say the BBC news or Reddit or YouTube, I'll see a lot of the same sort of code. There is a basic common thread running through all these different web sites.
Now does this means the exact same person built all these sites? Of course not. Rather it was independent designers all using a common standard.
My question to creationists/ID proponents is if there is an insistence that utilization of DNA points to a "common design" how do you know it's still not the result of independent designers adhering to a common standard? How would you ever tell that there is only one designer?
