Re: [asa] ID without specifying the intelligence?

But would that not be true of any living sentient creature? The higher
the order, probably the more unpredictable?
JimA [Friend of ASA]

Carol or John Burgeson wrote:

> 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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Received on Sat Sep 15 11:11:08 2007