Keith
posted, in part:
"ID advocates also reject humans as natural agents, and instead view them
as non-natural intelligent agents distinct from the natural world. Human
(and human-like) agents and supernatural agents are viewed as essentially
identical categories with respect to scientific explanation. Thus a
demonstration of human intelligent action is for them indistinguishable
from a demonstration of divine action. This equation of human and divine
action is crucial for their argument that supernatural intelligence can
be detected empirically.
However one understands human soulishness, humans are natural causal
agents."
Without defending ID, I must disagree Keith. Specifically, I hold that
humans are NOT natural agents; we have free will and can (and do) have
effects on the external material world that are not, even in principle,
predictable.
Burgy
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