• future_synthetic@awful.systems
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    1 year ago

    Ah yes, computer programming, the leader in biological sciences.

    It was not on my bingo card today to witness someone attempt to ascribe legitimacy to intelligent design through application of computer programming concepts but here we are.

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      1 year ago

      It’s an old creationist ploy. DNA is like a computer program, which implies there must have been a programmer, yadda yadda, just asking questions, wharblgarbl, brave scientists are speaking up and challenging the Darwinist regime.

      • bitofhope@awful.systems
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        1 year ago

        A lot of things in programming are in fact evidence of natural selection rather than intelligent design.

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      1 year ago

      my brain just came up with the shitpost of “intelligent design ~= seeded random” and now you get to suffer from it too