Re: Episodic creationism: newest version
Greg Billock (billgr@cco.caltech.edu)
Thu, 21 May 1998 08:15:07 -0700 (PDT)Howard Van Till:
> Answer: Yes, but with a semantic qualification. This version of episodic=
>
> interventionist creationism is, for strategic reasons, I suspect, present=
> ed
> under the banner of "Intelligent Design." Although the leadership of this=
>
> movement has chosen not to acknowledge it in a candid and public statemen=
> t,
> the term "ID" has a twofold meaning: To be "intelligently designed" means=
>
> to be both 1) purposefully conceptualized AND 2) assembled (at least for
> the first time) by the action of some (usually unidentified) extra-natura=
> l
> agent. =
This has confused me before, and still does. How do ID proponents know
the agent was extra-natural? How can this be distinguished from
intermittent visits by genetic engineers from planet X, who are
quite naturalistic agents?
-Greg