>But Bill, trial and error is the very definition of intelligent design.
Bill replied:
<<Did you really say this? >>
Yes, I really said this.
<<Trial and error is
certainly not the very definition of the kind of design an omnipotent,
omniscient God produces.>>
Whoa, hold the phone! I NEVER said that. We were talking about your analog. We
were talking about human intelligence plugged into a system designed with a
goal: product development. That's all.
<< I find this really amazing. You are clutching at
any element of design at all -- even when it's in bits and pieces which
conflict and clash with one another, just so you can say that design is
present in a fairly chaotic example.>>
Your amazement merely proves my point. Human intelligent design is not really
close to the Grand Design after all, is it? That's why I find these analogs so
weak.
<<Are you really Howard Van Till?>>
Yes, as evidenced by my gapless intellectual economy.
Jim