> "intelligent design" before the fundies got hold of
> it. Don't need no Designer; it's just something
> embedded in the nature of the cosmos.
>
> Or not. In any case, it isn't anything that belongs
> in a science curriculum.
In reading past posts on the group, I really enjoyed your writing on
ID. I have not read any of the original ID stuff.
--- In [email protected], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues"
> <curtisdeltablues@> wrote:
> >
> > "I'd guess you cited the bonobo as evidence against
> > my speculative suggestion that humans may intuit
> > "orderliness" and that this intuition may be a
> > source of their sense of ethics."
> >
> > No, I liked what you wrote. I should have said so to avoid my post
> > sounding like a refutation.
> >
> > The bonobo's forgiveness rituals are the behaviors that I found
> > fascinating.
> > It seemed to be evidence that forgiveness is necessary to allow
> > primate cultures to exist,
> > rather then something taught to man by religious thought.
>
> Makes sense to me. The idea (if you can call it that
> in a bonobo) survives because it *works*.
>
> > I appreciated your phrase: "I wouldn't
> > rule out that it comes from an inherent "orderliness"
> > (in the very-big-picture sense) from which the
> > universe emerged and which humans intuit. "
> >
> > I think that can be appreciated from a wide variety of religious and
> > non-religious perspectives.
>
> Indeed it can. Personally, if I couldn't appreciate
> it from a nonreligious perspective, I wouldn't entertain
> it at all.
>
> It's part of what's behind the *original* notion of
> "intelligent design" before the fundies got hold of
> it. Don't need no Designer; it's just something
> embedded in the nature of the cosmos.
>
> Or not. In any case, it isn't anything that belongs
> in a science curriculum.
>
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