[TXnMA]

Heads up! This one could be interesting...

[curiosity]

Indeed. I will ping my list when my machine with my list finally arrives at my new place. Moving cross country can be such a pain!

[betty boop]

Obviously in the background here, and the foreground too, is the Intelligent Design debate. Darwin and his followers advocate an unguided and purely material mechanism of natural selection operating on random genetic variation. Intelligent Design claims to find positive evidence that the mechanism was, indeed, guided--in short, that the software in the cell (DNA) did not write itself.

Hi TXnMA!!!! That the software in the cell "did not write itself" is the real clincher for me. No software ever writes itself. Period. Some neo-Darwinists simply refuse to acknowledge this. Thus all their following arguments rest on thin air.

It will be argued, perhaps, that computer programs can be self-structuring, or self-evolving. But that continues to miss the point: That capability or function must be "loaded in" by the software designer in the first instance.

Nothing that exists is sui generis, self-caused. Not even man. But we "forget this at every sound."

Thanks for the ping to this great article. The Language of God sounds like a great book -- I'll be putting it on my little list....