From: Michael Roberts (michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 08:41:52 EDT
But I love glaciers and moraines they are so wonderful and beautiful and now
you say they are not intelligently designed .
That upsets me
Michael
----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard J. Van Till" <hvantill@chartermi.net>
To: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2003 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Phillip Johnson (and Methodological Naturalism)
> >From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
>
> > If the Ice Age was the result of the Flood then Glaciers and Moraines
can be
> > seen to be intelligently designed
>
> Michael,
>
> Well, not exactly. Here's the problem. The pattern set by ID advocates
seems
> to be that inanimate objects like stars and planets (which, I presume,
> include glaciers and moraines) are labeled "intelligently designed" when
> they are formed as a consequence of a robust (& fine-tuned) system of
> natural formational capabilities. Biotic things, on the other hand, are
> labeled "intelligently designed" when the system of natural capabilities
is
> inadequate to do the job and needs to be supplemented by occasional
episodes
> of non-natural form-imposing intervention by an unidentified, unembodied,
> choice-making agent who need not be God.
>
> So, sorry, but your glaciers and moraines can't be intelligently designed
:)
>
> Howard Van Till
>
>
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