are only certain things "Designed"?

>>> "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> 5/22/2005 5:41:14 PM
>>>writes:
Please send chapter and verse and I may recant. Otherwise someone will have

to design a suitable stake for me

Ted replies:
Fair enough, Michael. I don't have a lot of such quotations handy, but I
suspect there are quite a few more. Let me offer a very prominent one, from
Behe, Darwin's Black Box, pp. 193-4:

[Behe describes what appears to be a car accident but is actually a
sociology experiment}

"The apparent accident was designed; a number of parts were purposely
arranged to look like a mishap. Other, less noticeable events could be
designed also: The coats on a rack in a restaurant may have been arranged
by the owner before you came in. The trash and tin cans along the edge of
a
highway may have been placed by an artist trying to make some obscure
environmental statement. [etc.]
"The upshot of this conclusion--that anything could have been purposely
arranged--is that we cannot know that something has _not_ been designed."
(emphasis his)

I think I can find a few more, but surely this one is explicit enough,
yes?

ted
Received on Tue May 24 11:50:40 2005