Re: Kansas munchkins (as Gould will call them)

On 5/22/05, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Ted
> These are very important points. The whole of idea of ID tends to limit
> design to certain things, thus Behe insisted that bloodclotting is
> designed
> and the transport of oxygen by haemoglobin is not and I developed the
> absurdity of that in my 1999 PSCF article.

With all due respect, Michael, I think this is a straw-man argument. As I
understand it, Behe is saying that in some cases you can detect design, and
in some cases you can't detect it. That is clearly not the same as saying
something is not designed - just that scientifically you can't say for sure.

Rather than saying ID tends to limit design to certain things, it is more
appropriate to say that it limits detectable design to certain things. We
all as Christians believe that God designed the universe in a certain sense.

I agree, however, that to limit detectable design to certain things, is to
risk falling into the God of the Gaps type of argument.

Iain.
Received on Sun May 22 05:36:26 2005