Re: Directed evolution: evidence for teleology?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <alexanian@uncw.edu>
To: "George Murphy" <gmurphy@raex.com>; "Cornelius Hunter"
<ghunter2099@sbcglobal.net>; <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2005 9:32 AM
Subject: RE: Directed evolution: evidence for teleology?

> The important question is what is the data that ID wants to explain? I
> strongly believe that if the data is purely physical, viz., it does not
> deal with how life, conscious being, came into being, then it is
> difficulty to see how one can infer intelligence behind the existence of
> (physical) Nature. However, if one wants to explain all of nature, the
> physical as well as the nonphysical, and thus include life, consciousness,
> rationality, then one must infer a Creator.
.......................

There is some plausibility to your claim about consciousness and rationality
but I see no reason to make this statement about life.

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

 
Received on Sun Oct 16 16:08:49 2005