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To: AntiGuv

This definition of ID contains, among other things, an implicit assumption of vitalism, a concept that thas rather thoroughly been rejected on many grounds.


1,898 posted on 05/30/2005 6:22:00 AM PDT by js1138 (e unum pluribus)
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To: js1138

Likewise, the definition doesn't give any hint what "intellegence" is. Nor does is give any indication that such a determination is possible.


1,899 posted on 05/30/2005 6:47:24 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: js1138
This definition of ID contains, among other things, an implicit assumption of vitalism, a concept that thas rather thoroughly been rejected on many grounds.

Well, yes, but every definition of ID contains an implicit assumption of vitalism. That is a problem of ID, not a problem of our definition, which cannot define ID as anything other than what ID is.. LOL

1,901 posted on 05/30/2005 7:00:14 AM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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