From: Sarah Berel-Harrop (sec@hal-pc.org)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 08:27:51 EDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
To: "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@chartermi.net>
Cc: <ASA@calvin.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: RE: Fibbonacci and other mathematical patterns in shells
> If an electron is not “intelligently designed” because it is produced by
purely natural process, then surely humans are similarly not designed. I do
not think an ID advocate would agree with you.
Exactly. Because the "TE" disagrees with the ID as
defined below (ie, that you can dust for God's
fingerprints), then he rejects intelligent design in the
broad sense, and is thus an atheist or accomodationist.
see, "What every theologian should know..." (Dembski)
http://www.arn.org/docs/dembski/wd_theologn.htm
Or I guess a panentheist (see)!
http://www.discovery.org/viewDB/index.php3?program=CRSC%20Responses&command=
view&id=1256
Johnson does a similar thing, wrt to the word
"creationist" in _Defeating Darwinism_
Incidentally, swimming systems are not IC!
http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/design2/article.html
http://www.talkdesign.org/faqs/icdmyst/ICDmyst.html#swimsys
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> Moorad
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard J. Van Till [mailto:hvantill@chartermi.net]
> Sent: Mon 8/18/2003 3:31 PM
> To: Alexanian, Moorad
> Cc: ASA@calvin.edu
> Subject: Re: Fibbonacci and other mathematical patterns in shells
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> From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
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> > Perhaps someone can tell me why isn°¶t, say, an electron intelligently
> > designed? A brick is just as intelligently designed as a house!
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> Yes, but only if you use the term "intelligently designed" in the
ordinary manner of contemporary usage.
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> 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.
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> Howard Van Till
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