Re: Fibbonacci and other mathematical patterns in shells

From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 15:31:41 EDT

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    From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>

    > Perhaps someone can tell me why isn°¶t, say, an electron intelligently
    > designed? A brick is just as intelligently designed as a house!

    Yes, but only if you use the term "intelligently designed" in the ordinary
    manner of contemporary usage.

    The problem, as I have stated on numerous occasions, rests with ID
    advocates' peculiar use of the word couplet, "intelligently designed." In ID
    speak, to say that "X was intelligently designed" is to say, in effect, that
    "X was actualized (assembled, formed, fabricated...) in such a way as to
    require one or more occasions of non-natural, form-conferring intervention
    by an unidentified, unembodied, choice-making agent." If one uses THAT
    definition, then an electron would not be "intelligently designed" because
    it is produced by purely natural processes.

    Howard Van Till



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