To: general_re
The catch-all Creationist response, however, is that because God created it all, there is going to be some form of intelligent design apparent in it to some extent.
I don't expect that to be a universal Creationist "rebuttal", but IMO there are enough of them who won't be able to understand why that response makes the "argument from design" functionally useless.
To: Dimensio
I'm not sure how helpful that explanation will be to anyone, though - even Dembski avoids that sort of thing. After all, implicit in the very idea of the design inference is the notion that some things are designed, and some things aren't. If everything is designed, what good is a design inference that can only tell us that some things were designed? Or even worse, if everything is designed, what do we need a design inference for in the first place?
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03/26/2003 8:31:22 PM PST by
general_re
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