--- In [email protected], bbrigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > When asked whether evolution or creationism was true, M. > said "Both are". > > *********** > > Right, which is why intelligent design and creationism alone are > inadequately explanatory.
Good article on ID's failure as a theory: http://www.slate.com/id/2127052/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
