No Intelligent Design Nor accident

Re: # 5 Yes, hell of a lot, but not physics and philosophy.

Ah, finally! A fellow Mechanical Engineer on Chowk!

This is well written, Mr. Schandra, and I guess we do have a lot of common opinions regarding the origins of Life. But when you fast forwarded to the future, you envisoned man as something like an amorphous consciousness with no fascination for its body. At least I wouldn`t like my brain seperated from my body not matter how much my future kids said, `Aww come on dad, it`s the latest trend! You got to get rid of your body and live like an independent brain!`. I`d rather live in a small cell with my body and all than fly around on electromagnetic waves self replicating myself. After all, the brain is the biggest sex organ, they say! Hehe!

By the way, you`ve probably heard or read about those self replicating robots the intelligent infidels have created recently. Being an engineer, would you really consider them self replicating or just machines breaking up into pieces and rejoining with other bits, thanks to some eletromagnetic magic? I wouldn`t! If they could create a two robots with one set of mechanisms each which are able to produce another set of mechanisms thus created a third complete robot with its own set, then we can say that the robots are indeed self replicating.

Interesting and very entertaining!