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To: Grut
Mind you, I believe in God; I even believe that proof of the existence of God is easy. But 'Intelligent Design' ain't it

So your point is??? God isn't intelligent enough to design the universe?

In case you missed it, here is an excerpt and link to a thread posted recently on FR.

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Antony Flew, the 81-year-old British philosophy professor who taught at Oxford and other leading universities, became an atheist at age 15. Throughout his long career he argued—including in debates with an atheist-turned-Christian named C. S. Lewis—that there was a “presumption of atheism,” that is, the existence of a creator could not be proved.

But he’s now been forced to face the evidence. It comes from the Intelligent Design movement, led by Dr. Phillip Johnson and particularly the work of Michael Behe, the Lehigh biochemist who has proven the “irreducible complexity” of the human cell structure. Though eighty-one years old, Flew has not let his thinking fossilize, but has faithfully followed his own dictum to “go where the evidence leads.”

Flew told Habermas, “This is the creature, the evolution of which a truly comprehensive theory of evolution must give some account. Darwin himself was well aware that he had not produced such an account. It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful argument to design.”

Weighing the Evidence: An Atheist Abandons Atheism

186 posted on 01/20/2005 4:40:35 PM PST by NYer ("In good times we enjoy faith, in bad times we exercise faith." ... Mother Angelica)
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To: NYer
Except that if Antony Flew accepts Intelligent Design, how can Intelligent Design be, as the article that sparked this particular discussion claims, an "alternative" to Evolution when Flew also accepts Darwinian evolution? If he accepts both, it's kind of hard for one to be an "alternative" to another.
190 posted on 01/20/2005 5:00:03 PM PST by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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