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To: Natufian; MrB

Look beyond the crystal to the atomic level.

If the atoms were designed to behave in a particular way at certain temperatures, it in no way disallows a creative intelligence behind the formation of the crystal.

Besides, the crystal is magnitudes of order simpler than DNA and does not contain information.

And still the precedent is intelligence, in that when we see ordered systems and know the cause for sure, it’s intelligent. Otherwise, the best we can say is that we don’t know if there was intelligence involved.

There’s no way to say definitively that there wasn’t intelligence involved, because we’ve found no way of determining that. It’s merely a philosophical conclusion that is assuming the conclusion.


44 posted on 09/16/2009 8:48:25 AM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: metmom

“There’s no way to say definitively that there wasn’t intelligence involved, because we’ve found no way of determining that. It’s merely a philosophical conclusion that is assuming the conclusion.”

Or to put it another way, there is no way to say that definitively that there was intelligence involved, because we’ve found no way of determining that. It is merely a philosophical conclusion that is assuming the conclusion?


53 posted on 09/16/2009 10:08:21 AM PDT by Natufian (The mesolithic wasn't so bad, was it?)
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