From: Howard J. Van Till (hvantill@chartermi.net)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 15:31:41 EDT
From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
> Perhaps someone can tell me why isn°¶t, say, an electron intelligently
> designed? A brick is just as intelligently designed as a house!
Yes, but only if you use the term "intelligently designed" in the ordinary
manner of contemporary usage.
The problem, as I have stated on numerous occasions, rests with ID
advocates' peculiar use of the word couplet, "intelligently designed." In ID
speak, to say that "X was intelligently designed" is to say, in effect, that
"X was actualized (assembled, formed, fabricated...) in such a way as to
require one or more occasions of non-natural, form-conferring intervention
by an unidentified, unembodied, choice-making agent." If one uses THAT
definition, then an electron would not be "intelligently designed" because
it is produced by purely natural processes.
Howard Van Till
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