Re: Phillip Johnson (and Methodological Naturalism)

From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 17:50:15 EDT

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    If the Ice Age was the result of the Flood then Glaciers and Moraines can be
    seen to be intelligently designed

    My PSCF paper Design up to Scratch of Dec 99 criticising the ID of Behe was
    wrong because such a great truth had not dawned on me.

    Mea culpa

    Michael
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@chartermi.net>
    To: "Josh Bembenek" <jbembe@hotmail.com>; <asa@calvin.edu>
    Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:35 PM
    Subject: Re: Phillip Johnson (and Methodological Naturalism)

    > >From: "Josh Bembenek" <jbembe@hotmail.com>
    >
    > > But then Ken Ham believes that all dog kinds (from foxes to wolves to
    the
    > > poodle) are descendants of two parental dog kinds from Noah's boat that
    > > quickly diversified into all known species. This event does not appear
    to
    > > be mutually exclusive with God's creative activity. I wonder what
    Wells'
    > > and ID's take on that argument would be, since they see evolution as
    such an
    > > inefficient process.
    >
    > 1. Wells and other ID advocates are strategically silent on the issue of a
    > Noachian Flood. Perhaps that is because they wish to keep the political
    > support of the YEC community for whom a recent global flood is essential.
    >
    > 2. If advocates of ID did affirm a recent global flood, however, it would
    > certainly be rich ground for a flurry of "intelligent design events"
    > (non-natural form-conferring interventions by an unidentified, unembodied,
    > choice-making agent) to bring about the lightning-fast burst of
    > diversification that would have to have occurred in the past few thousand
    > years.
    >
    > Howard Van Till
    >
    >



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