>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
Micro-evolution and Macro-evolution are just the terms I've had the most exposure to, probably because they're favored by Lee Strobel in particular (he's a journalist who interviewed a lot of scientists, but not a scientist himself, and one of the most prolific ID authors). I'm really not suprised that the scientific community has different terms since those terms were really meant for communicating with laymen. And yeah, I've said before that there's nothing in ID theory that says evolution can't be possible. It's just the 'random chance' aspect, or put another way natural selection, that ID objects to. Great way to put it Judah. And for what it's worth I really didn't want to start another creation vs evolution debate. I was just pointing out that most creationists (I did say all, but apparently that's not quite accurate) don't believe life to be static and unchanging. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:320697 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
