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To: PugetSoundSoldier
I would like to take a crack at your questions. If you don't mind.

1. What is the undeniable evidence of intelligent design? What is the proof, other than observation (which is the same level of proof used by believers of the theory of evolution)?

The fact that you're asking this question with the aid of a computer over the internet is the proof. Intelligent Design is inferential through observation and logic.

2. Why does the presence of an intelligent designer mean that evolution is wrong?

The two concepts are mutually exclusive by definition. Unless of course you posit that an intelligent agent e.g. God invented evolution.

66 posted on 06/14/2008 9:32:36 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Sincerity is everything. If you can fake that, youÂ’ve got it made." Groucho Marx)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The two concepts are mutually exclusive by definition. Unless of course you posit that an intelligent agent e.g. God invented evolution.

How about if we say God invented the Big Bang, and everything after that was a result of it's design?

67 posted on 06/14/2008 9:40:08 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
The fact that you're asking this question with the aid of a computer over the internet is the proof. Intelligent Design is inferential through observation and logic.

I see. So observation and logic are good for creation; what about the observations of micro and macro evolution? Logic applied to the thought that "these two animals look similar, but have different ways of dealing with their geographically disparate environment, thus the differences in their looks and behavior arose from their environment". Does that not also work?

The two concepts are mutually exclusive by definition

They are? How? Intelligent Design fundamentally attacks how it started. Evolution addresses how it's continued. So how are they mutually exclusive, other than the fact they address fundamentally different questions?

Unless of course you posit that an intelligent agent e.g. God invented evolution.

And that therefore unifies the two, meaning they are not exclusive, correct?

75 posted on 06/14/2008 10:33:59 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier (Indignation over the sting of truth is the defense of the indefensible)
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