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On 8/13/2010 3:31 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4C65AB94.5090503@io.com" type="cite">I don't
have a problem with the universe ultimately being of intelligent
design, but I feel that people saying the intelligence <b
class="moz-txt-star"><span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>had<span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b> to intervene over time
instead of making the universe self-building is presumptious. I
also find it more in character for a divinity who is supposed to
have a personal relationship with every intelligent being to
devote Their interventions to the people rather than the pile of
rocks they live on.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
As I understand the theory of Intelligent Design, it posits that
some natural and biological phenomena/processes are best understood
and predicted if they are addressed with sciences such as
engineering rather than natural selection. If I have understood it
right, your perplexity is that you are applying metaphysical import
to merely practical systems.<br>
<br>
I mean, who knows what sort of things would interest an Intelligent
Designer if such a person were located, and why would it matter?
Even Richard Dawkins has accepted the concept of a personal
Intelligent Designer as a non-problem so long as the designer were
understood to be an alien race that developed according natural
processes.<br>
<br>
u+16b9<br>
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