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To: PatrickHenry
You may have missed #2. The only one I know for certain that you got wrong is #4, at post 149, your answers at 166 and 173--175.

Yes I did miss number 2, because as I had pointed out earlier, intelligent agents can mimic chance or natural laws. By #9, though I had caught on to the general's devious pattern:^) Also, I also mis-identified #4 as your neighbor's patio.

I think you missed the termite mound #6, but it's debatable. I'll leave it to general_re to give you the score.

Yes, I mis-identified #6 as an ant-hill.

My take on all of this is that nature (in #4) can fool us into thinking there's intelligent design involved. It's not really remarkable (in #2) that we can immitate nature. Anyway, I see no simple test for finding the trademark of the Intelligent Designer.

Yes, I also agree with you here; if there is a test for dectecting design, it is certainly not simple.

Cordially,

686 posted on 04/29/2003 10:02:06 AM PDT by Diamond
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To: Diamond; general_re
I didn't think we'd resolve the issue, but it was a very good exercise. I've bookmarked this thread, so when someone shows up in a crevo thread and claims that "ID solves everything" I can give him something to think about.
687 posted on 04/29/2003 10:10:25 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas.)
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