If we find information in a radio signal from space, we treat it as evidence of a mind. But when we find vastly more complex information inside a cell, we’re told intelligence can’t even be considered.
Why?
“If you’re the world’s leading authority on some particular subject, that doesn’t mean you even have minimal competence in a hundred other things.”
— Thomas Sowell
#OTD April 27, 1667:
Blind and living in reduced circumstances after the English Civil War and the Restoration, Puritan poet John Milton sold the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost to publisher Samuel Simmons for £10, with the promise of additional payments if the book sold well. This masterful retelling of humanity’s fall from grace and redemption through Christ became one of the most influential works in the English language, rivaling the impact of Shakespeare and the King James Bible.