bivalve@mail.davidson.alumlink.com writes:
><< Design is a problematic word in this context. Certainly it is designed in the sense that God planned it and carried it out. However, intelligent design, as defined by the Discovery Institute et al., also conveys the implication that the design was implemented in a non-natural manner. >>
>Intelligent design, as used by Bill Dembski and others does not imply non-natural implementation. ID is set over against _unintelligent design_. It is mostly those who oppose ID who imply that it is implemented in a non-natural manner.<
Regards, Bob<
Claims by ID advocates such as Dembski and Johnson that evolution implies atheism, that methodological naturalism implies atheism, that either God or mindless molecular processes achieved something, and similar statements rule out the possibility of God cooperating with natural processes in His providence.
Presenting certain things and not others as intelligently designed, based on the criterion that the former purportedly require non-natural intervention, implies that intelligent design requires non-natural intervantion. I include activities by intelligent aliens as non-natural.
Dr. David Campbell
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