Paul,
Your provision of a semi-humorous answer is a transparently evasive tactic.
Why not have the courage to deal with the actual issue? "Extra-natural
Assembly" is no more cumbersome than "Intelligent Design." (However, as you
said the last time I asked you this question, "'Intelligent Design' just
sounds better.")
Howard
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From: "Paul Nelson" <pnelson2@ix.netcom.com>
Howard Van Till wrote:
> And why call the enterprise that celebrates empirical
> evidence for gifts withheld from the Creation by the
> misleading label INTELLIGENT DESIGN when
> in actuality it is an enterprise to promote the proposition
> that certain structures/forms could be actualized only
> by intervening acts of EXTRA-NATURAL ASSEMBLY
> to compensate for key formational gifts withheld by
> the Creator? If FORM-IMPOSING INTERVENTION
> is the picture of God's creative work that you want to
> promote, then why not have the courage to say so
> candidly? You have every right to promote that point
> of view. Why not accept a "truth in labeling" approach?
I tried, but I can't get this new label to fit on the box:
"An Enterprise To Promote The Proposition
That Certain Structures/Forms Could Be Actualized
Only By Intervening Acts Of EXTRA-NATURAL
ASSEMBLY To Compensate For Key Formational
Gifts Withheld By The Creator."
Whew. Wears me out just reading it again. ;-)
Paul Nelson
Senior Fellow
The Discovery Institute
www.discovery.org/crsc <http://www.discovery.org/crsc>
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