Re: [asa] Detecting Design

> But here is my point: if by faith we can believe with the psalmist that
> God knew each of us intimately before we were born, without expecting
> science to detect "irreducible" or "specified" complexity or an "edge"
> in embryonic development where natural causes fail and intelligent
> agency must take over, why not approach the origins of species
> similarly?

Rhetoric intended to promote claims of gaps in the origin of species
can imply that there ought to be gaps in developmental biology, too.
E.g., claiming we're either the product of mindless molecular actions
or of intelligent design. There's a lot of molecular events involved
in development, and none of the molecules has a mind.

-- 
Dr. David Campbell
425 Scientific Collections
University of Alabama
"I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"
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