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To: js1138; Ichneumon
[causally adequate]
Translation: God could have done it; therefore, that is the best explanation.

Actually, it's nothing more than the expression of a wretched tautology: "If X is the cause, then X is causally adequate." What peer endorsed that?

57 posted on 08/26/2004 11:25:34 AM PDT by PatrickHenry (A compassionate evolutionist!)
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To: PatrickHenry
What peer endorsed that?

I'm waiting for a readable version, but the paper has been described as a review of the literature. That's pretty safe.

60 posted on 08/26/2004 11:30:19 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: PatrickHenry
Actually, it's nothing more than the expression of a wretched tautology: "If X is the cause, then X is causally adequate."

Or the obverse: "If you want a causally adequate hypothesis, just postulate a sufficiently big miracle/deity".

Also known as the "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat" approach.

What peer endorsed that?

Good question.

63 posted on 08/26/2004 11:37:21 AM PDT by Ichneumon ("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
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