From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Tue Apr 29 2003 - 15:50:32 EDT
Burgy,
Sorry I lost track of your comments re "creaturely." here's a brief
response.
In place of the term, ID, I had suggested
> "How about MD, Mindfully Designed, or some other term that focuses attention
> of the idea that the universe exhibits a character that strongly points to
> the prior intentional action of Mind?"
You replied:
> I agree with Dick Fischer -- the word "design" does not seem right. Here are
> the terms I came up with, in order of "most preferred:"
>
> Creaturely developed (CD)
> Creaturely built (CB)
> Creaturely implemented (CI)
> Creaturely conceived and implemented (CCI)
>
> Where "creature" is any sentient member of the physical universe. Humans,
> aliens (if any), some mammals such as dogs, etc. would be part of that set.
> Also some entities such as birds; I don't know where to draw a line here and
> I don't think that makes any significant difference anyway.
1. I like the word "creaturely" as a means of distinguishing between divine
action and the action of any member of the Creation, but not as a means of
distinguishing between the action of sentient creatures and the action of
insentient creatures (where I define "creature" as any member of the
Creation, whether sentient or not).
2. In spite of the fact that I like the word creaturely for this
distinction, my spell checker always tells me that there is no such word.
Howard Van Till
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