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The Evolution of Linux
Taiko writes: "Kerneltrap.org has posted some of the more interesting messages from a recent kernel mailing list discussion. It started with a post on proper indentation, but turned into something a bit more. There are some posts by Linus and Alan Cox about the nature of design, computer science, Linux development, evolution, and more. Quite interesting and funny."
That's what I thought til he started getting all scientific and comparing our planet to a computer. Oh well...
If I wasn't so lazy, I'd have a sig.
>You know what the most complex piece of engineering known to man in the whole solar system is?
>Guess what - it's not Linux, it's not Solaris, and it's not your car.
>It's you. And me.
>And think about how you and me actually came about - not through any complex design.
>Right. "sheer luck".
Merriam-Webster definition of the words "Engineering" and "Engineer"
Engineering : The practical applications of scientific and mathmatical principals.
Engineer: 1. To lay out or to manage as an engineer. 2. To guide the course of, to pilot or steer, lead.
To claim that Mankind is a ( quoting Linus ) "A most complex piece of engineering" AND THEN to claim that said engineering is the result of "sheer luck" is a gross contradiction.
The definition of the words "engineer" or "engineering" implys the thing or creation engineered was guided, lead, built with intent, built to a specific plan or set of blueprints.
Which would be the exact opposite of "sheer luck"
"sheer luck" is chaos not engineering.
If mankind is a work of engineering, and I think mankind is just that, a work of engineering, that would strongly in no uncertian terms imply the existance of an engineer, or creator.
The creator in this case being the individual entity holding the plans, and blueprints of our design.
And of couse we are talking about God.
God engineered us.
We know this through observation, becuase looking at ourselves we see far too much design, and intent of purpose, in ourselves we see the creators fingerprints.
To conclude we are engineered is to conclude that God exists.