Re: Theory and Fat [sic]

Brian D Harper (harper.10@osu.edu)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 21:11:29 -0500

At 06:13 AM 2/26/97 +0800, Steve Jones wrote:
>Group
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>On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 21:07:43 -0500, Brian D Harper wrote:
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>[...]
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>>>BH>OK, fine, but it is not necessary for ID to appeal to God.
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>>SJ>First, Brian now acknowledges that the "Intelligent Design model"
>>does specifiy a "mechanism". This is in contradistinction to
>>naturalistic evolution which has no specified mechanism, eg. for
>>"prebiotic evolution."
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>BH>I acknowledeged a "mechanism" but certainly not a mechanism if
>>mechanism is to be taken in the scientific sense. In other
>>words, I assumed that you put the word in quotation marks to make a
>>distinction between things like chemical reactions and
>>"And God said, `Let there be...,' and there was...".
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>SJ>Brian "assumed" wrong. As he well knows, I always put my opponents
>words in quotation marks.
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You put lots of other things in quotation marks as well.

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>SJ>See above. Usually my quotes are to show I am using the very words
>that my opponent has used. I hope this clears up Brian's "confused'
>state!
>

Not entirely. Do you or do you not make a distinction between
"And God said, `Let there be...,' and there was..." and things
like chemical reactions?

Brian Harper
Associate Professor
Applied Mechanics
The Ohio State University

"Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I
do not understand the process of digestion?"
-- Oliver Heaviside