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To: AndrewC
"Darwin's Black Box" was written in 1996.

"Natural Theology" was written in 1802. What new concept has arisen in the ID movement since then?

468 posted on 12/05/2005 7:23:49 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: js1138
What new concept has arisen in the ID movement since then?

Information theory and computation.

475 posted on 12/05/2005 7:28:53 PM PST by AndrewC (Darwinian logic -- It is just-so if it is just-so)
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To: js1138
"Natural Theology" was written in 1802. What new concept has arisen in the ID movement since then?

Scientific evidence that may demonstrate irreducible complexity - that is the new concept.

Natural theology is a concept of theology (thus the name). ID has nothing to do with theology. Natural theology goes back much further than 1802 and Paley's book - Thomas Aquinas was big into this concept 600 years earlier.

Natural theology are arguments based on a deity. There is no deity in ID - other groups with theology as their root embrace ID in their effort to support the concept of deity but ID does not contain a deity - just evidence of design rather than evolution. If someone claims the "designer" of the irreducible complexity is God - that is their trip, but it not part of ID.

481 posted on 12/05/2005 7:45:17 PM PST by Last Visible Dog
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