For what its worth, Intelligent Design does not necessarily even deny speciation. Really depends on who you ask. The discussion we were having involved Kris' distinction about what he termed micro-evolution (change within a species) versus macro-evolution (speciation) so that's what I addressed. Intelligent Design, as I understand it, in its broadest incarnation is a dispute with the Natural Selection portion of Darwin's theory of Evolution. Natural selection is not a directed process (though not random as many ID folks would have you believe) and ID proponents posit that evolution happens through a directed process, not natural selection.
A discussion about whether natural selection could produce the variety we see in nature, the notion of irreducible complexity and the counter-arguments about why directed evolution is not a useful argument is a whole 'nother long email that I don't have time to go into now. Cheers, Judah On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:40 AM, G Money <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Eric Roberts < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> That would require ID to be science... >> > > For the second time....THEY claim it IS science...so let's see it. > > -- > My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man > I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:320672 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
