Re: ID at NRO

> Rich Blinne wrote:  
> "Being an OEC does not get ID off the hook. The age of the earth is not
> the issue here but the God in the gaps approach. Regardless of how
> long
> the days are they are in the past because the "gaps" are in the past. 
> That mean's that God doesn't act NOW." 

On Feb 15, 2005, at 2:46 AM, Don Winterstein wrote:

> Don't understand your argument.  No IDer or YEC, I'm sure, believes
> that God doesn't act now.  This is a primary reason I think you've
> misrepresented ID. 

You may correct that this is a misrepresentation of what the IDers
believe. However, I do not think it is a complete misrepresentation of
their arguments and the way in which average folk will digest them. I
constantly hear people talking about how God "tweaks" or "steps in",
etc. The tacit assumption behind talk like that is that at times when
He is not "tweaking" the Universe somehow manages on its own. As soon
as you divorce God from the normal, "understood" processes, you have a
God-of-the-gaps, shrinking God.

For myself, ID is something that is assumed by everyone that does
science. Without a rational, benevolent, consistent Designer behind
reality, I don't see any reason to expect experiment and reason to
accomplish much.

> [Sorry about the incorrect attribution.] 
>
No Problem. It's one of the hazards of this old-fashioned email style
forum.

Bill Dozier
Minister of Silly Guitar Sounds

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