Re: [asa] Timaeus--ID isn't "god of the gaps"

Hi Randy,

I don't use the explanatory filter.

"What happens to the argument if there is NO discontinuity?" It depends on the score for the other three criteria - analogy, rationality, and foresight. If they score strongly positive, then I'd score the thing in question as an example of teleologic/guided evolution.

Mike
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Randy Isaac
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [asa] Timaeus--ID isn't "god of the gaps"

  Mike,
    I must be missing something since I don't comprehend. This link doesn't provide all of the relevant text so I clearly need the additional information. But this snippet is still significant: "But the most significant aspect of this analysis is that it demonstrates that our design inference for the genetic code is not rooted in a " god-of-the-gaps" argument. Such an argument would have a defining pattern of gray-white-gray-gray, where the only indicator of design would be an argument for discontinuity."

  If I understand you correctly, you are saying that the "god of the gaps" critique doesn't apply because "discontinuity" is not the "only" indicator. But I'm asking a different question. What happens to the argument if there is NO discontinuity? I don't know what your scale is but what happens if there is no discontinuity and the explanatory filter criteria are not met?

  Randy
    Mike wrote:
    Subject: Re: [asa] Timaeus--ID isn't "god of the gaps"

    Hi Randy,

    I cannot speak for Timaeus, but I can speak for myself:

    http://www.thedesignmatrix.com/content/god-of-the-gaps-in-the-matrix/

    -Mike

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Received on Mon Nov 3 23:57:56 2008