Your knickers are in a knot over semantics because you cannot bear to face the truth. Truth is beyond your capacity because your reject the authority and accuracy of the biblical texts. One does not have to write his own dictionary to find plenteous evidence of organized matter performing specific functions, and one does not have to redefine science to infer or assume that said organization might be a product of intelligent design.
Your knickers are in a knot over semantics because you cannot bear to face the truth. Truth is beyond your capacity because your reject the authority and accuracy of the biblical texts. One does not have to write his own dictionary to find plenteous evidence of organized matter performing specific functions, and one does not have to redefine science to infer or assume that said organization might be a product of intelligent design.
My knickers are not in a knot at all. But yours seem to be. Fester, you use definitions for terms that are different from common and/or scientific usage. When one has a discussion with you, it's best to cut to the chase and get your definitions up front. It saves a lot of time. What's wrong with that?
Are we going to get into a discussion on what the definition of 'definition' is? If that's what you want to do, I'm sorry but I don't have the time now. It's sunny, getting warm, and it's golf season....so off I go.