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- From: kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
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- Subject: Re: Bales is a liar: evidence - one case
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- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 92 05:14:03 EST
- References: <1992Nov13.020308.13995@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- smullins@cidmac.ecn.purdue.edu (Scott H Mullins) writes:
-
- > >I mentioned "design~ rather than "creation. But since creation is the only
- > >prominent theory to include the idea of design, the presence in living
- > >organisms of characteristics of design which are not characteristics of
- > >evolutionary-type processes tends to indicate creation is a better
- > >explanation than evolution.
- >
- > Actually evolution does "design" things after a fashion. The fact that
- > organisms in many cases seem to be put together in a rather
- > catch-as-catch-can way seems to argue against the "intelligent" designer
- > hypothesis. (The Panda's thumb and all that). Since there is _a_ prominent
- > theory that includes the idea of "design" then you will have to get
- > another argument.
-
- That there is no "designer" need not be the only possible explanation
- for the various apparent idiosyncrasies in the design of organisms. For
- instance, many people who do not accept the "design" concept suppose
- that God, or "the designer" would have done things differently. But this
- is only a personal opinion. Some persons might say "God would have made
- things more perfect." But this presumes that God's purpose would have
- been to make a "perfect" world. This too is only an opinion. What if
- God's purpose was not to make a perfect world, but a rough-and-ready
- world where certain kinds of rough-and-ready activities are supposed to
- be performed?
-
- An intelligent engineer, when faced with the extraordinary task of
- constructing the body plans for millions of different types of
- creatures, would probably use a basic plan that could be modified by
- some simple adjustments. This would be more efficient than trying to
- design each type of organism from scratch. In this way we can view the
- genetic code as the work of a very clever engineer.
-
- Sincerely,
- Kalki Dasa
-
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