Anyone know what David Brin is saying about ID and evolution?

Question

He lists other options such as "Guided Evolution," "Evolution of Intelligent Designers," among others, and also explores classics"Cycles of Creation" and "Panspermia."
I guess my question should relly be, "What do you THINK of what David Brin is saying about alternatives to ID and evolution?"

Answer 1

I actually read his series. He wrote that the usual route of a species in foreign planets "acquiring intelligence" was by being uplifted (or bred for intelligence) by another intelligent alien species. In his series, there was a whole galactic society in which all these alien species have a sort of comittee. But humans weren't really accepted because we were "uplifted" without a sponsor (or without another alien race breeding us).

The humans also attempted to uplift Chimpanzees and Dolphins. There was this whole breeding system in which a chimp that distinguished himself intellectually would get an upgrade on his breeding card. If he had the lowest rank, then he wasn't allowed to breed. Highest rank meant that they wanted him to spread his genes to subsequent offspring.

Answer 2

Evidently he's just another frustrated evolutionist who has finally arrived at the inescapable conclusion that evolution has too may scientifically unsound assumptions to be credible and he's looking for a way to avoid believing God's truth presented in the Bible.

After all, do you really want to believe in spontaneous generation? If you believe in evolution, you have to at some point believe that non-living material simply woke up one day. Louis Pasteur laid down a considerable gauntlet to this kind of theory-tale.

Do you really want to believe that a snake laid an egg and a bird flew out before being gobbled up by mom. Then the bird had to find another bird of the opposite sex to produce offspring. A little far fetched, don't ya think?

And you have to believe that phenomenal structures like the eye evolved, and what about the butterfly? Did all the caterpillars die out that couldn't spin a cocoon and grow wings? Did all tadpoles die that couldn't grow legs and hop?

All living beings reproduce after their kind. That's what the Bible advances as the way things are. That's what we observe today. Evolution requires something we don't observe today.

Evolution simply doesn't have a leg to stand on, and I doubt it will evolve any soon.

Answer 3

Look it up. You can find almost anything on the 'net.

http://scienceblogs.com/afarensis/2006/01/23/brin_supports_card/

Answer 4

No, but I'd be interested. Lay it on me.