Fine Tuning & ID
Eduardo G. Moros (moros_eg@castor.wustl.edu)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 12:19:47 -0600Yesterday somebody said that He/she could not understand how IDers accept the
fine tuning in the making of elements (i.e., carbon) during the evolution of
stars and not accept at the same time the fine-tuning of ?something? in
biology that lead to bioevolution. The distinction was subtle enough to
think about it. I'm not an IDer but I'm a sympathizer. I think that the
analogy does not applied. Fine tuning has occurred (apparently) throughout
nature. We don't know enough of the internal structures of the stars and of
mechanisms that take place in them to argue that an ID must have put that or
this there so that enough carbon could be produced. We do know of structures
in the cell that challenge any evolutionary explanation. In any case, IDers
are not claiming (in my opinion) that everything is ID, rather they are
finding things that *seem* to be IC, and if they are truly IC they really
challenge any evolutionary pathway in favored of an ID. This is, so far, my
understanding of ID from book reading the ARN articles and some articles at
www.origins.org. That's why I think that people in this list don't really
understand the ID position (but I'm quick to say that I may be wrong), which
is in fact difficult to grasp anyway because the ID field is evolving..............................
Salu2