what do you think is a likelihood of your dog being able to assemble a space shuttle?

Question

lets try to increase that probability by allowing your dog to pass on its work through reproduction. Lets just say the reproduction continues for a couple of billion years with every generation trying to build the same space shuttle. Please note that the dog will not only have to understand how to build it but procure by way of making every and each necessary parts. lets assume that the dog does not get any smarter from one generation to the next (which is more realistic comparison to what some people claim when this unintelligent universe put together a human being over < 4 billion years -note space shuttle is still easier to make than man let alone a fly as we still haven't figured out how to make a cell with dead matters)

epidavros, are you saying you believe in intelligent design or simply claiming that your dog could do it?

Answer 1

The things those atheists believe are insane.

Answer 2

The paw is not an ideally evolved tool with which to assemble such a device. The biggest problem I see is that first of all you have to persuade a dog to take the idea seriously - only then will it spread to other dogs, because if you can't get the idea to take root in one generation, it won't get passed down from father to son as an evolutionary imperative.

Ultimately, dogs are designed as garbage collectors, and building a space shuttle is not an act that furthers a dog's ability to eat and process garbage - so this is a bit of a sticking point.

On reflection, the best place to start is by feeding dogs on a diet of marijuana and LSD - wake them up a bit. Disadvange with this strategy - dog is likely to give up on building a space shuttle and concentrate on learning how to roll spl*ffs instead.

Ho, hum.

Answer 3

It's about as likely as lightning striking a chemical soup
and making it become a living cell .

Scientists have cataloged over 130 different improbable coincidences that are needed for life to happen. When you take all of these factors into account, a conservative estimate for the likelihood of this happening is 1 in 10^150.

If the odds of winning the lottery are one in a million, then the the odds that life was a lucky accident is like winning the lottery 25 times in a row.

The odds of a dog building a space shuttle would be even worse!

Answer 4

I think my dog would have more chance building the space shuttle than the cosmic tornado would have of creating a God complete. What's even more impressive about this is that I don't even have a dog but he would still have the better chance.

Just read the testimonies of the other answerers here.

Answer 5

I am pretty sure my dog is already more intelligent than some of the people here.

You, for instance, clearly have no clue about how natural selection works.

Did you know, for instance, that a random natural selection model "designs" a better aircraft wing than the best engineers in just 6 generations. Natural selection is very, very effective - far more so that the greatest human mind in existence - and whats more we can show that it is.

Answer 6

As a matter of fact, I raised two miniature schnauzers...one currently attending Pepperdine Law School (takes his bar next June) and the older one is an advanced Shuttle design-engineer with NASA.

There goes another argument to s*it....

Answer 7

I don't have a dog but if I did, I'm sure he would be more capable than president Bush :)

Answer 8

I don't know about dogs but my cat just built me a tv stand

Answer 9

Such an imaginative mind.

Answer 10

My dog retired from NASA last summer.