From: DNAunion@aol.com <DNAunion@aol.com>
>>>FMAJ: Why not? If natural selection is an intelligent designer for
>instance, why are there limits to evolution.
>
>DNAunion: That sounds like an oxymoron to me. If you have any kind of
>intelligence and design involved in the selection process, then it is not
>NATURAL selection, be definition. What am I missing?
To be fair, you've probably missed the relevant prior discussion, which I
don't want to repeat here. But basically the point has been made that ID
proponents have failed to give a clear definition of what "intelligent
design" means.
For the sake of argument, I tend to assume that ID entails the action of a
conscious being. But this assumption has its problems, and anyway ID
proponents seem unwilling to commit themselves to such a position.
Stephen Jones, our resident ID proponent, has even claimed that ID does not
require a designer!
Richard Wein (Tich)
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