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To: GodGunsGuts
ROTFLOL!

The evidence given in this piece is beautiful support for the point that ID is perfectly explained by the anthropic principle. Note that Thomas Jefferson was pointing out that people feel like there's a design, whether there was one or not!

He nicely explained how the human mind works...looking for design where it does not exist...just like the nuts who think that a cloud--or a rock formation on Mars--looking like a human face MUST have been designed that way.

8 posted on 07/04/2009 4:08:50 PM PDT by Gondring (Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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To: Gondring
More accurately Jefferson said not ‘feel like there's design whether it exists or not’ but rather:

“I hold (without appeal to revelation) that when we take a view of the Universe, in its parts general or particular, it is impossible for the human mind not to perceive and feel a conviction of design, consummate skill, and indefinite power in every atom of its composition. (emphasis added)”

He said the human mind perceives also and that based upon examination of the general and the particular.

But that raises a question that perhaps you can answer:

If you examined some chipped stone how would you determine which ones, if any, were the result of a design, a deliberate human act, and not just happenstance?

24 posted on 07/04/2009 5:41:08 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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