Intelligent Design: an Artifact from Tlön

Intelligent Design

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Orbis Tertius

 

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”

                                                                                  –Hamlet

Intelligent design is the theory that life, at some  level, is simply too complex to have arisen from the chemical aleph. 

For the scientist, intelligent design is a prison.  Like Hamlet’s Denmark, one cannot be a king of infinite space when trapped inside the nightmare of irreducible complexity.  However, the real tragedy of this concept is that thinking makes it so.  If we accept that the world is to complex to understand, then what is the use of trying to understand it?  

Intelligent design is a failure of language expressed as a failure of the imagination.  A molecular machine that is too complex to arise randomly is actually an artifact from Tlön.  In other words, an article of  fiction that has somehow gained a foothold in the real word.   

Borges challenges his readers to come up with an example–the retina! flagellum! ect–of a biological machine of irreducible complexity.  I will show you that these are all objects from Tlön that have somehow come to exist alongside real retinas and flagellela. 

If we do not eliminate these impostors, the world of Tlön will eventually become the real world.  When this happens, the only science will be admiration of the designer.  The designer who is none other than small minded man, seeking his mirror image.