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

From: Randy Isaac <randyisaac@comcast.net>
Date: Tue Nov 04 2008 - 11:32:12 EST

I need some specifics to help me understand it. Can you give me an example from biochemistry or other aspects of living cells where there is no discontinuity but the other three criteria "score strongly positive?" I can't figure out what that would mean or what it would look like. And why is analogy so high? Perhaps I need to read more of your writing about these criteria. I don't understand them nor why these are the right criteria. I'm not at all saying you are wrong. I'm just saying I don't understand. As usual, it seems.

Randy

Mike wrote:

  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

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