Re: Fibbonacci and other mathematical patterns in shells

From: George Murphy (gmurphy@raex.com)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 12:55:45 EDT

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    Howard J. Van Till wrote:
    >
    > >From: "Sarah Berel-Harrop" <sec@hal-pc.org>
    >
    > > Well, while we are at it, neither are ID (in the sense
    > > that the Creation reveals God's activity, eg in the
    > > sense of Ps 19, Romans 1:18-20, etc) and evolutionary
    > > biology, or even NS & RM alone, mutually exclusive,
    > > and Josh has already admitted that, but the supposed
    > > mutual exclusivity of the two is a major point underlying
    > > Dembski, Johnson, et al's arguments.
    >
    > The mutual exclusivity of ID (as defined by Dembski et al) and wholly
    > natural causation is a product of the rhetoric of ID advocates. Dembski
    > makes it especially clear.

            I don't think it's due just to the rhetoric. The whole usefulness of ID for the
    attack on "naturalism" depends on the assumption that some intelligently designed things
    can't be the result of natural causation. & it's only the attack on "naturalism" that
    gives ID the importance that it has in present-day culture.

                                                    Shalom,
                                                    George

                                                      

     

    George L. Murphy
    gmurphy@raex.com
    http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

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