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To: js1138
Again, I find that over the years you never criticise young earth creationism or any of the weird forms of ID.

I'm not Mormon, but I don't find it necessary to criticise Mormons.

So when you use the term nonrandom or guiding intelligence, some may mistake your reference as a reference to a supernatural designer,

That would probably be due to the fact that I am referencing a supernatural designer and so apparently is Shapiro.

It opens up the possibility of addressing scientifically rather than ideologically the central issue so hotly contested by fundamentalists on both sides of the Creationist-Darwinist debate:

That central argument from the "Creationists" certainly is not whether the cell thinks or wrote its own program. Plus computer algorithms don't pop out of thin air.

809 posted on 04/07/2008 3:07:13 PM PDT by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
I'm not Mormon, but I don't find it necessary to criticise Mormons.

That's evasive and dishonest. If you were teaching Sunday School or participating in a church sponsored discussion of doctrine, you would criticise other church's doctrines.

These discussions always boil down to naturalism vs supernaturalism, natural history vs intervention.

Shapiro disavows the need for supernatural explanations.

810 posted on 04/07/2008 3:16:00 PM PDT by js1138
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