Re: Distal vs. proximate: Timing of design events and Pax-6

From: Cmekve@aol.com
Date: Wed May 02 2001 - 20:54:37 EDT

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    In a message dated 5/2/01 7:19:08 AM Mountain Standard Time,
    hvantill@novagate.com [responding to Bob] writes:

    << Sorry, but I find this last statement very confusing. It sounds like things
     are done _either_ by ID _or_ by evolution. Is that what you meant? Would it
     be the case, then, that a designed universe would not be capable of
     actualizing certain potential forms, or that a non-designed universe would
     be capable of supporting evolution?
    >>

    If IDers insist on the either/or situation, then doesn't ID equate to a
    "deism-of-the-gaps"? [Which is essentially what both Christian and
    naturalistic critics of Paley realized in the 19th century.]

    Karl
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    Karl V. Evans
    cmekve@aol.com



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