Bob, > To me, intelligent design theory is completely inadequate and > unexplanatory and not as comprehensive as what MMY said. I think > it's necessary to distinguish between reacting to behavior, which is > what God does, and controlling everything, which intelligent design > theorists seem to embrace. Human beings have obvious freedom of > choice, and they suffer or enjoy based on the feedback from those > choices. But animals and plants, although they do not have the > consciousness to override their genetically-determined behaviors, do > engage in maladaptive behaviors which result in feedback that > eventually eliminates them. So natural selection, whether it is seen > as decisions by a God or as decisions by impersonal natural laws, is > a fact that is not acknowledged by intelligent design theorists > because of their limited intelligence and knowledge -- MMY is not > saying what intelligent design theorists are saying.
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