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To: Exnihilo
Intelligent design refers to intelligent processes operating in nature that arrange pre-existing matter into information-rich structures.

Unfortunately, this sentence doesn't make any sense. No process is intelligent, but follows simple rules which may or may not be iterated a vast number of times to yield complex results. Without external enthalpy, a process will only yield more entropy. However, with external enthalpy a process can be driven backward to create a reduction in entropy (locally at least). Of course, it gets interesting when you consider that essentially everything in the universe is fundamentally a dumb process.

21 posted on 01/10/2002 10:15:21 AM PST by tortoise
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To: tortoise
No process is intelligent, but follows simple rules

The process itself may not be intelligent but it is evidence of intelligence. The existence of rules is a manifestation of intelligence.

24 posted on 01/10/2002 10:27:47 AM PST by Semper
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To: tortoise
No process is intelligent

Really? Is solving a differential equation an intelligent process? Oh! Wait.. you mean a natural process.. I see. I'm glad to see that your a priori commitment to scientific naturalism isn't blinding you from other possibilities. LOL!
30 posted on 01/10/2002 10:49:55 AM PST by Exnihilo
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