Re: Who's Burden of Proof?

Glenn wrote:
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> Or a process called simulated annealing, which is used in geophysics to
design models of the subsurface. These things use chance based upon random
number generators to mutate the model looking for a better fit to the real
data. This type of procedure is quite widespread and shows that designers
do use chance.
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I didn't say a designer couldn't use chance, just that no good designer
would let chance alone dominate or control a design. Your example could be a
good analogy of how a divine designer could use chance to create and solve
problems. However, this is also a good example of *intelligent* designers
using natural randomness to create. I think you would agree that chance
alone does not solve these problems but the intelligent utilization of
resource available, including chance.

Steve Petermann
Received on Fri Nov 28 21:33:22 2003