[net.origins] Committee

ntt@dciem.UUCP (Mark Brader) (04/13/84)

>>> Specifying a creator in the singular form mutually excludes the
>>> participation of multiple creators in the creation enterprise...

>> Multiple creators haven't gotten past Occam's Razor. Common design has
>> indicated a common designing agent.

> More likely if the universe was "designed" at all, it appears more likely that
> it was designed by committee...

There may have been a single DESIGNER, but the IMPLEMENTATION was surely
done by committee--and they didn't invite the designer to be a member.

Isn't it obvious that the designer specified simple, elegant principles
(1/r^2 gravity, mixing the gene pool, ...) and the implementers were
left to do the best they could?  I mean, what did we end up with?
Uncountable gravitons skittering all over the place, and quantum
chromodynamics;  pornography, the cosmetics industry, and net.singles!

Mark Brader
"Nipples -- for men!"    ...from "Time Bandits"