Prof. M.P. Ranjan was at IDC on the 8th of September to talk about the history of design. Design he believes began 20 million years ago when people first started using fire. It is this that constitutes design and not the theory of combustion and the science that came to be developed over the next million years or so...a statement like that makes me wonder.
What is design? If the use of fire is design, what about matches and friction and safety matchboxes and all of that? Is that not design? It appears that even these are designed. Why then does Prof. Ranjan ask us to view the science of fire as something different from the use of fire?
Raja Mohanty
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